Blessed, thrice blessed our Whitsun – morn meeting!. From Wordnik.com. [Peer Gynt] Reference
On the Sunday before Whitsun, William Hamleigh got married. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
Whitsun-week (just as before, Monday and Tuesday in Easter-week)?. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 39, July 27, 1850] Reference
She said, she would wait for me, there, each and every Whitsun Day. From Wordnik.com. [Braunston Belle and the Number One] Reference
Jeremiah; Easter to Whitsun, Acts, Catholic epistles and Apocalypse. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
In 1758, it changed from the last week of January to Whitsun Tuesday. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
He gave at Pentecost, we can ask Him for the same gift on Whitsun Day. From Wordnik.com. [The Prayer Book Explained] Reference
Whitsun-eve, are they permitted, in their own way, to keep the Sabbath. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
You know, at the Whitsun feast, the little blue-bell that I laid there. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference
Others blamed Philip, for rushing to get the vault finished by Whitsun. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
I hate beach sun, on Whitsun leave where fun means skin, to chagrin, fries. From Wordnik.com. [Sharkskin « First 50 Words – Writing Prompts] Reference
He would set all the monks to work for the ten days remaining before Whitsun. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
On Thursday, in Whitsun-week, the emperor sent him an order for his banishment. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
‘Used to be Whitsun,’ he announced, ‘so you’re luckier than you used to be. From Wordnik.com. [Spotted Hemlock]
The date of Whitsun Pentecost Sunday in the year of your birth was Sunday 6 June 1976. From Wordnik.com. [119 Shopping Days Left] Reference
In 1162, Thomas Becket was ordained to the Priesthood on Ember Saturday in Whitsun week. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
You'll be able to camp out this beautiful weather - what a lovely Whitsun it's going to be!. From Wordnik.com. [Five Go To Billycock Hill]
The job would feed the family until Whitsun, by which time the baby would be half a year old. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
Now, why can't our tiresome public authorities give us back our proper Whitsun holiday weekend?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference
The 27th Whitsun Pilgrimage from Notre-Dame de Paris to Notre-Dame de Chartres began this morning at dawn. From Wordnik.com. [News from the Chartres Pilgrimage] Reference
Whitsun, or Pentecost, is observed on the seventh Sunday after Easter so the date varies from year to year, but falls in May. From Wordnik.com. [Goosnargh Cakes from Lancashire] Reference
This brilliant (as you say) Larkin poem is different from Whitsun Weddings, but in its own subtle way no less multidimensional. From Wordnik.com. [Postcard from nowhere: airports and assumptions : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
Only at Easter and Whitsun were the catechumens baptized; and then they were clothed in white garments, which they wore for a week. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light] Reference
"Then you intend to remain Whitsun King this year also?". From Wordnik.com. [A Hungarian Nabob] Reference
And at last rosy Whitsun Day, most comical of days, arrived. From Wordnik.com. [A Hungarian Nabob] Reference
Monday and Tuesday are the Whitsun festival days, whereas, in. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.] Reference
So now you are going to be Whitsun King for a whole year, eh?. From Wordnik.com. [A Hungarian Nabob] Reference
The custom of climbing the spire during the Whitsun fair, to which. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum] Reference
"What is your name, little brother?" he inquired of the Whitsun King. From Wordnik.com. [A Hungarian Nabob] Reference
Whitsun holidays the Lords will find Home Rule Bill at their disposal. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, May 27, 1914] Reference
Prominent amongst all the youths stood the Whitsun King of the year before. From Wordnik.com. [A Hungarian Nabob] Reference
"Well, Martin," said the judge, "so here we have red Whitsun-Day again, eh?". From Wordnik.com. [A Hungarian Nabob] Reference
After I had read all that is written, I let Haug come to me in the Whitsun holidays. From Wordnik.com. [Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities] Reference
The umpires hastened up, and, removing the floral crown from the head of the Whitsun. From Wordnik.com. [A Hungarian Nabob] Reference
"Look! he has lost his crown: he cannot therefore be the Whitsun King!" cried many voices. From Wordnik.com. [A Hungarian Nabob] Reference
It wasn't sugar that occupied attention of House on resuming sittings after Whitsun recess. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 17, 1914] Reference
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