The first goose brought to table is called a Michaelmas goose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference

Also known as Michaelmas Day, September 29th is the feast of St. Michael the Archangel.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Italy denies paying Taliban for peace] Reference

The feast of St. Michael the Archangel, also known as Michaelmas, is celebrated on September 29th.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Michael's Waffles] Reference

These highbrow hybrids have even shed their American name, coming back with the British name Michaelmas daisies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Berks county news] Reference

In the Chaldean allegories the name of Michael was given to this personification, and called Michaelmas, or feast of Michael.    From Wordnik.com.  [Astral Worship] Reference

Here's the Collect for the day, which is also called "Michaelmas".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference

This day is referred to as "Michaelmas" in many countries and is also one of the harvest feast days.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Michael, archangel] Reference

One pound of pepper to be paid at Michaelmas annually.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference

Candlemas (February 2nd), on June 1st, and at Michaelmas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of the Democracy] Reference

Michaelmas goose is of the September feast of the angels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan] Reference

The second volume appeared at Michaelmas of the same year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference

"Nigh on twenty year, mum, come Michaelmas," replied Dodge.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference

After naming the sheriffs who were appointed at Michaelmas, A.D.    From Wordnik.com.  [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference

Pelican in Duck Lane 'in 1670; from Michaelmas, 1671, it was' at the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles] Reference

Michaelmas, 1786, he reports from his visit to the botanical garden in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

Michaelmas to Christmas would appear to be the best times for catching.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference

The fairies used to come there at May Day and Michaelmas, for they were.    From Wordnik.com.  [Granny's Wonderful Chair] Reference

I also saw it was not woody enough in the stem for the Michaelmas daisy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference

We've got - the Michaelmas daisy is the white ones, and lots of foliage.    From Wordnik.com.  [British Villages Rescue Vital Community Services] Reference

On Michaelmas-day an election of a new mayor took place in succession to.    From Wordnik.com.  [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference

No, here is an African marigold, and a China-aster, and a Michaelmas daisy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harry's Ladder to Learning] Reference

At Michaelmas, they kill their cattle and salt them, for the winter and spring.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Fair] Reference

King's advice it should be at Michaelmas following at Kink-Kenadon by the seaside.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur"] Reference

The conference was to take place at the Castle of Marburg on Michaelmas day (1529).    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Luther] Reference

The next day, being the anniversary of our hero's birth, Michaelmas-day 1800, the Archduke.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2] Reference

At Michaelmas time poor men must make money of their grain, that they may pay their rents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference

"Michaelmas, I suppose," grunted Harwood through his pipe-smoke and subsided into indifference.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Collectors] Reference

For Sir Gawaine rode from Whitsuntide until Michaelmas and found none adventure that pleased him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference

Vesoul by Michaelmas, the date of the change in municipal offices and of appropriations for the year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477] Reference

One of our provincial proverbs is: "So many days old the moon is on Michaelmas Day, so many floods after.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Moon Lore] Reference

Melville had made on the Michaelmas service in the Royal Chapel, and he at once acknowledged the authorship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series] Reference

The Michaelmas Fair of this year at Leipzig, is, according to its catalogue, as rich as ever in literary wares.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference

On Michaelmas Day, the following year, the disasters of Culloden again threw him an exile on the shores of Brittany.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference

His usual dress is grey, with a pointed red cap, but on Michaelmas-day he wears a round hat like those of the peasants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Folk-Lore and Legends; Scandinavian] Reference

Michaelmas term, the old game, and nothing but the old game, should be played, and woe betide any unauthorized "cutters" thereof.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acton's Feud A Public School Story] Reference

"I have kep 'these apartments respectable and comf'table, and not a week unlet, these seventeen year, come Michaelmas," she sobbed.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference

In his reign the gift was exercised at certain seasons of the year, Easter and Michaelmas being at first set apart for this purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference

Parliament commission of inquiry into weights and measures, and last Michaelmas a year, no! let me see -- well, marry! there came down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cromwell] Reference