Ascensiontide

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Ascensiontide novena to the Holy Ghost Fr Timothy Matkin 2006

Easter and Ascensiontide speak of the rising and exaltation of a glorious being, clothed in a spiritual body refined beyond all comparison with our natural flesh; Whitsuntide tells of the coming of a mysterious, intangible Power -- like the wind, we cannot tell whence It cometh and whither It goeth; Trinity offers for contemplation an ineffable paradox of Pure Being.

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles

Ascensiontide, and is held with greater or less ceremony.

Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland F. J. Widgery

In the Ascensiontide sports the Earl wears a grotesque costume: a mask, and a smock padded with straw, and round his neck a chain of biscuits.

Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland F. J. Widgery

Ascensiontide, 1268, in connexion with a solemn procession to St. Frideswyde's, when certain horrible Jews, _demoniaco spiritu arrepti_, seized a cross from the bearer, broke it, and trampled it under foot.

The Customs of Old England

Since last Ascensiontide they have bid me wait in quietness for the appointed hour; but of late my voices have spoken words which may not be set aside.

A Heroine of France Everett-Green, Evelyn 1906

Ascensiontide they have bid me wait in quietness for the appointed hour; but of late my voices have spoken words which may not be set aside.

A Heroine of France Evelyn Everett-Green 1894

When we came out of the Treasury, we went on the Piazza of St. Mark, among the shops of the Ascensiontide fair which is still going on, and found such a magnificent show of beautiful Venetian glass, that we were fairly bewildered, and were obliged to remain there for a long time.

Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 Julia Mary Cartwright Ady 1887

"The night in Ascensiontide, three years agone, in which the prisoner left his stepfather's protection and made a vain attempt to reach me at Oxenford, striving to bear the missive of which this is a copy."

The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune 1863

Then Etienne repaired to Oxenford, where he was the guest of the new governor, Robert D'Oyly, for the night, who sent him on by boat to meet the king at Abingdon, whither William was daily expected to arrive to keep Ascensiontide, for he was still observant of such duties.

The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune 1863