And a maypole, and often there's handfasting, too. From Wordnik.com. [Salem Falls]
I remember the maypole, we used to wrap the maypole. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Carolyn Rogers, May 22, 2003. Interview K-0656. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
And hey, go nuts, make your own maypole centerpiece!. From Wordnik.com. [Pen-Elayne on the Web] Reference
"Poetry is like maypole dancing," he said cryptically. From Wordnik.com. [A Session With My Poetry Coach] Reference
A merry stave, a cup of cherry wine, or a maypole dance?. From Wordnik.com. [Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People] Reference
Picasso painted Degas 'dancers, maypole twirled lovingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Koan (Valentine's Day Massacre)] Reference
How dare you haul me onto the green to dance about the maypole!. From Wordnik.com. [No Man's Mistress]
"I appear like a … ah, painted maypole to you, Will?" he said. From Wordnik.com. [Heartless]
There was to be dancing afterward about the maypole on the green. From Wordnik.com. [One Night for Love]
"And as for that maypole of a daughter, she's nothing but a gawk.". From Wordnik.com. [The Making of a Soul] Reference
Let's also tell ourselves that they are pretending it's a maypole. From Wordnik.com. [Dlisted - Be Very Afraid] Reference
They've left off dancing at the maypole, and gone I know not whither. From Wordnik.com. [Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People] Reference
MUSIC: Any quaint old-time maypole dance will do for the maypole rout. From Wordnik.com. [Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People] Reference
The maypole ribbons had unwound themselves and now danced like ghosts. From Wordnik.com. [Salem Falls]
“But it is the maypole dance for which I will always remember you.”. From Wordnik.com. [No Man's Mistress]
There was the Distaff Dance, a maypole without men, held in the spring. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
For the Act V Chaconne, Mr. Morris choreographed a delightful maypole dance. From Wordnik.com. [Two Kings, Two Baroque Works] Reference
Wee three cud dans a braid aroun a maypole-type deevise in joi….or not…. From Wordnik.com. [Tough cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
I rose up one maypole morning and saw in my glass how nobody loves me but you. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
I want a popcorn machine, a maypole, a DJ playing the Macarena, the electric slide. From Wordnik.com. [Will #17] Reference
Bow steeple, from whence he will fly over Fleet Street to the maypole in the Strand. From Wordnik.com. [COSMIC VOYAGES] Reference
I used to envy maypole, broomstick girls, who could dress much prettier than I could. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton] Reference
There would be a maypole, but only girls really took pleasure in the dance around it. From Wordnik.com. [Phoenix And Ashes]
Wagstaff, a fellow as tall as a maypole and with a headpiece of very similar material!. From Wordnik.com. [Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant] Reference
He must have felt the sheer romance of the maypole dance and its aftermath, as she had. From Wordnik.com. [No Man's Mistress]
The maypole dancers are in dull-green, dull-violet, and dull-blue, bronze, and slate-gray. From Wordnik.com. [Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People] Reference
In the center of the stage a maypole decked with streaming ribbons that are somewhat faded. From Wordnik.com. [Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People] Reference
Stocks, bonds and cash swirled back and forth in his account like dancers braiding a maypole. From Wordnik.com. [Hands Off!] Reference
Michaele is the star -- the scary-skinny maypole around which everyone else is going to dance. From Wordnik.com. [Michaele Salahi: A "Real Housewives" star is born] Reference
A couple of men were checking the ribbons about the maypole, making sure they were not tangled. From Wordnik.com. [No Man's Mistress]
She has become "a litterateurs' Lorelei, a feminist icon, a scholars' maypole", writes Dr West. From Wordnik.com. [Lesbian Poetry] Reference
As if the very universe revolved about the two of them just as surely as they circled the maypole. From Wordnik.com. [No Man's Mistress]
But, although ballads are no longer the vocal accompaniments to dances round the maypole, old ballads are still sung to dance tunes. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
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