"Saint john's" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... knights ride a-hunting] Now it chanced upon the day before Saint John's day in the fulness of a summer-time such as this, that King Arthur looked forth from his chamber very early in the morning and beheld how exceedingly fair and very lusty was the world out-of-doors—all in the freshness of the young daylight. For the sun had not yet risen, ...
— The Story of the Champions of the Round Table • Howard Pyle
... turquoise is of advantage against melancholy, quartan fever, and heart failure. He attests finally that sapphire preserves courage and keeps the members vigorous, while emerald, hung about one's neck, keeps away Saint John's evil and breaks ...
— La-bas • J. K. Huysmans
... the night before Saint John's, In the fullness of the moon, When that wild and spectral hunt Fills the Hollow Way ...
— Atta Troll • Heinrich Heine
... November, as I promised. Aunt Mitty and Aunt Matoaca have forbidden me to mention your name to them, so I shall walk with you to church some morning—to old Saint John's, I think, Ben." ...
— The Romance of a Plain Man • Ellen Glasgow
... narrow paths made of sods of grass alongside the newly-metalled roads, because he thought they had been put there to make soft going for the bare feet of little children. Children knew, I think, that he wished them well. In Bellmullet on Saint John's eve, when we stood in the market square watching the fire-play, flaming sods of turf soaked in paraffine, hurled to the sky and caught and skied again, and burning snakes of hay-rope, I remember a little girl in the crowd, in an ecstasy ...
— Synge And The Ireland Of His Time • William Butler Yeats |
