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  • On the right, action star turned conservative columnist Chuck Norris offered a Yule-tide take on the health care bill from a fright-wing perspective.

    Avlon: Wingnut's fright-wing politics 2009

  • And so Augustine called the Christmas season "Yule-tide" after the pagan god of winter, and pagan rituals involving mistletoe and the Yule log were carried over into the Christian world.

    A State of the Season Address 2007

  • Yule-tide they had a great drinking bout with a man named Hallsteinn, nicknamed Stallion.

    Grettir the Strong, Icelandic Saga Unknown

  • Yule-tide with all the good old Swedish customs; and there is a birthday party for the twins, when Karen also receives a gift, -- the very best gift of all.

    Gerda in Sweden Etta Blaisdell McDonald

  • Thorfinn returned home and remained there until about Yule-tide, as has already been told.

    Grettir the Strong, Icelandic Saga Unknown

  • Grettir lay many days in his bed and the lady did all she could for him; thus Yule-tide passed.

    Grettir the Strong, Icelandic Saga Unknown

  • Yule-tide, we have been making little gifts for you, -- the girls with their needles, the boys with their saws and knives.

    Gerda in Sweden Etta Blaisdell McDonald

  • His was the master-mind behind this Yule-tide festivity, while a delightfully funny sketch written by him in which Gwendoline de Vere of Greenheys

    The Seventh Manchesters July 1916 to March 1919 S. J. Wilson

  • So near Xmas, dear, yet none of the Yule-tide joys float out to this frozen wilderness.

    Letters of a Dakota Divorcee Jane Burr

  • Thorpe's "Yule-tide Stories," 460 f., for the North German story of

    Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

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