may-pole

If ever you held a pencil in your life, I beg and beseech you to take a memorandum of that tall may-pole.

Camilla 2008

The house of Grandlieu requires of the dear boy an estate worth a million francs before securing for him the title of Marquis, and handing over to him that may-pole named

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

And the grawndest crowndest consecrated may-pole in all the reignladen history of Wilds.

Finnegans Wake 2006

There was a tall may-pole carried by a man dressed as a jester, and boys and girls in early English peasant costumes held the ends of the long fluttering ribbons, laughing as the crowd applauded.

Princess Polly At Play Amy Brooks

Like a giant may-pole, the largest island held several smaller ones in leash, permitting them to revolve around it, interlacing vines and creepers that were rooted on the mother isle.

The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old Florence Partello Stuart

Probably that was the reason why she had been so pleased to hear Hubert Marien say unexpectedly that she was now ready for the portrait which had been often joked about, every one putting it off to the period, always remote, when "the may-pole" should have developed a pretty face and figure.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

All the figures of the lord, &c. of the Yule, handsomely represented in basso-relievo, stand in the north wall of the nave of Cirencester Church, which vouches for the antiquity of the custom; and, on many of these occasions, they erect a may-pole, which denotes its rise in Druidism.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 372, May 30, 1829 Various

She is more fiery against the may-pole than her husband, and thinks she might do a Phineas 'act to break the pate of the fidler.

Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

There’s a may-pole and a bonfire in the town, a Fool’s Pope and Flemish ambassadors in the city, but at the University, nothing!

I. The Great Hall. Book I 1917

On this day there was invariably a bonfire on the Place de Grève, a may-pole in front of the Chapels de Braque, and a mystery-play at the Palais de Justice, as had been proclaimed with blare of trumpets on the preceding day in all the streets by Monsieur de Provost’s men, arrayed in tabards of violet camlet with great white crosses on the breast.

I. The Great Hall. Book I 1917