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 "Paas" Quotes from Famous Books 
 
 
  ... his beneficence. So far from indulging in unreasonable austerity, he delighted to see the poor and the laboring man rejoice; and for this purpose he was a great promoter of holidays. Under his reign there was a great cracking of eggs at Paas or Easter; Whitsuntide or Pinxter also flourished in all its bloom; and never were stockings better filled on the eve of ...  — Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete • Washington Irving
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