"Christmastide" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the merry Christmas bells, Are ringing far and wide; Their chime in rhythmic chorus swells, While every brazen throat foretells, A joyous Christmastide. ...
— Mountain idylls, and Other Poems • Alfred Castner King
... the joyous spirit of the Christmastide seemed to have entered into this little farmhouse set in the midst of the lonely, white fields. In the hearts of these men, moving about in their dim-lighted room, was reechoed the joyous murmur of the great world without: the gayety of the throngs ...
— The Children's Book of Christmas Stories • Various
... buffalo!" Marie's protest forced its way up from her heart. "And I have just begun to think of things that make one happy. There will be dances at Christmastide." ...
— A Little Girl in Old Detroit • Amanda Minnie Douglas
... posterity. It was most likely from his house, called the PORTE ROUGE, and situated in a garden in the cloister of St. Benoit, that Master Francis heard the bell of the Sorbonne ring out the Angelus while he was finishing his SMALL TESTAMENT at Christmastide in 1546. Towards this benefactor he usually gets credit for a respectable display of gratitude. But with his trap and pitfall style of writing, it is easy to make too sure. His sentiments are about as much to be relied ...
— Familiar Studies of Men & Books • Robert Louis Stevenson |
