"Mistletoe" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the mountain," Mary remarked to her lodger as Susan deposited her burden, "the mountain had to come to Mahomet. And here's a bit of mistletoe for your door, and of holly for ...
— Contrary Mary • Temple Bailey
... head over ears in love with a black-eyed young lady visitor named Arabella Allen, who wore a nice little pair of boots with fur around the top; where they went skating and Mr. Pickwick broke through, and had to be carried home and put to bed; where they hung mistletoe and told stories, and altogether enjoyed themselves in ...
— Tales from Dickens • Charles Dickens and Hallie Erminie Rives
... the mistletoe As though she did not know it. She looks quite unconcerned, you know, And pretty, ...
— When hearts are trumps • Thomas Winthrop Hall
... strongest of all that are under cultivation; its acorns were the principal diet of the first mortals, and the honey found in it gave them drink. I may say, too, it furnished fowl and other creatures as dainties, in producing mistletoe for birdlime to ensnare them. In this battle, meantime, it is stated that Castor and Pollux appeared, and, immediately after the battle, were seen at Rome just by the fountain where their temple now stands, with their ...
— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough
... So Loki, who always tried to do mischief, made an arrow of mistletoe, and gave it to the prince who shot and killed ...
— Famous Men of the Middle Ages • John H. Haaren
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