"Christmas eve" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the bells up there in the old steeple at midnight on Christmas Eve. Six quaint figures, each wrapped in a shadowy cloak and wearing a bell-shaped cap. All were gray-headed, for they were among the oldest bell-spirits of the city, and "the light of other days" shone in their ...
— Kitty's Class Day And Other Stories • Louisa M. Alcott
... morning of December 24, 1849—the first Christmas eve following the gold rush. Windham, who had lain awake since midnight, pondered upon this and other things. Events had succeeded each other with such riotous activity of late that life seemed more like a dream ...
— Port O' Gold • Louis John Stellman
... a year or two my affairs kept me in India, and nothing seemed more unlikely than that—for the present, at any rate—Jack and I should cross paths again, but by one of those strange chances which sometimes occur in this world I found myself, on the Christmas Eve of 190-, standing on the platform of Holdergate Station, having missed the connection for Scotland, and with the pleasing prospect before me of spending the night, and possibly—if trains were not available—the ensuing Christmas ...
— The Jolliest School of All • Angela Brazil
... Christmas morning by the Napoleon stage for home, and if you wish we may be married Christmas Eve. That will give you four days ...
— A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties • Charles Major
... suddenly that they wondered where the month had gone. Christmas Eve the Happy Family spent in arranging a round-up camp out behind the house where the hill rose picturesquely, and in singeing themselves heroically in the heat of radium flares, while Luck took his camp-fire scenes that were triumphs ...
— The Phantom Herd • B. M. Bower
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