Christmas-tide

Christmas-tide came with sunshine, and that the middle of the year was its coolest part?

The Art of Living in Australia 2004

Christmas-tide, he saddled his horse, and rode off towards Oare, with a good stout coat upon him, and leaving Ruth and his head man plenty to do, and little to eat, until they should see him again.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

And then, hurrying on to the subject with confused haste, in order that a word or two might be spoken before her husband came back, she expressed her thanks and his for the good things which had been sent to them at Christmas-tide.

The Last Chronicle of Barset 2004

The worthy lawyer received him kindly, but not at all as if he wished to see him; for Christmas-tide was very nigh at hand, and the weather made the ink go thick, and only a clerk who was working for promotion would let his hat stay on its peg after the drum and fife went by, as they always did at dusk of night, to frighten

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

So he ground meat and drink, and all kinds of good things, to last all Christmas-tide, and on the third day he invited all his friends to come to a feast.

The Blue Fairy Book 2003

Indeed, the only events that rated more than a mention on the inside pages of the print media while I was abroad were the Christmas-tide bomb blast in Worcester and

ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

It was with feelings of great gratification that we learnt that at last we were going to have our long-delayed rest, and that it would fall to our lot to spend the coming Christmas-tide and New Year season in more congenial surroundings than had been the case in the two previous years.

Three years in France with the Guns: Being Episodes in the life of a Field Battery C. A. Rose

Bran Beeswax's satin silveriness in proof of the non-existence of the saint beloved of Christmas-tide.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 Various

"'Twas ages, ages long ago," and Caedmon and his hymns are nigh forgotten, but with each returning Christmas-tide may be heard again, as Caedmon heard of yore, the angels 'song of joy: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men."

Christmas in Legend and Story A Book for Boys and Girls Elva S. Smith

Bivouac_, which will give my readers an idea of how the Christmas-tide was spent.

Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War Fannie A. Beers