Day; the second with Whitsuntide, which is in May as often as not. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries] Reference
He is called the Whitsuntide-lout, and being mounted on horseback with a green branch in his hand he is led back into the village. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion] Reference
A flower-crowned girl called the Whitsuntide Bride from door to door, singing a song in which they ask for eggs. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Bough : a study of magic and religion] Reference
Venir para la Pentecostés: To come for Whitsuntide. From Wordnik.com. [Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.)] Reference
Whitsuntide, but he soon saw that this was impossible. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Luther] Reference
Then the Lord He will send us all a merry Whitsuntide. From Wordnik.com. [Whitsun Carol] Reference
After all we did not get the Whitsuntide holiday, for. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
Patrick went to Cruachan-Aighle on the Saturday of Whitsuntide. From Wordnik.com. [The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings] Reference
Whitsuntide, and says it may be derived either from high, or from. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 28, May 11, 1850] Reference
Whitsuntide, impelled by a similar sense of duty, are also studying. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 28, 1891] Reference
Thursday, and Friday immediately preceding Whitsuntide, except when. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 550, June 2, 1832] Reference
So it passed on till the least of Whitsuntide, which at that time the. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur"] Reference
Whitsuntide Ales, and a quantity of others which we have no accounts of. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 284, November 24, 1827] Reference
"Three, sir," was the prompt reply -- "Easter, Whitsuntide, and the Revel."'. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
His sojourn at the castle began in the festival time between Easter and Whitsuntide. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Luther] Reference
The Whitsuntide Gift: or the way to be happy; a book very necessary for all families. From Wordnik.com. [Goody Two-Shoes A Facsimile Reproduction of the Edition of 1766] Reference
Yes, and he honors me by wearing it only on great holidays, at Christmas or Whitsuntide. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference
The wedding feast fell on a Whitsuntide, when King Etzel lay by Kriemhild in the town of Vienna. From Wordnik.com. [The Nibelungenlied] 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
Christmas, Easter, and Whitsuntide, where they appeared before the monarch in all the pomp of state. From Wordnik.com. [Coronation Anecdotes] Reference
Of those who played before Edward I. at Whitsuntide, and who were divided into ranks, five are styled. From Wordnik.com. [The Customs of Old England] Reference
Bench had 170 marks per annum, 5l. 6s. 6d. for his winter robes, and the same for his Whitsuntide robes. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 262, July 7, 1827] Reference
The difficulty was that I had overlooked the fact that everybody goes out of London town at Whitsuntide. From Wordnik.com. [Walking-Stick Papers] Reference
Worst of it is we're all getting better, and shall be back to the grind at Westminster after Whitsuntide. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 23, 1891] Reference
It carries on a large trade in cattle, horses and grain, and has two annual fairs, held at Whitsuntide and in June. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
King Arthur was spending Whitsuntide at Caerleon-upon-Usk, and one day he hunted the stag in the forests that lay thereby. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
Easter, Whitsuntide, Church-Consecration, and Christmas; some have it on but two of these days, and some only at Christmas. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864] Reference
The flitting took place at Whitsuntide in 1812, so, as he died in 1832, he must have lived at Abbotsford about twenty years. From Wordnik.com. [From John O'Groats to Land's End] Reference
Endeavours were made to arrange matters by arbitration, but in vain; and by Whitsuntide the two earls were in open hostility. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference
Whitsuntide, when the Psalms -- from the 113th to the 117th, inclusive -- which end with the aspiration, "Hallelujah!" were sung. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
Whitsuntide had fallen on the first day of the tournament, his year and a day had more than passed, and he had forgotten his promise!. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur and His Knights] Reference
Richmond, and there remained until Whitsuntide; at which time the cardinal resorted thither, and kept there the said feast very solemnly. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 48, September 28, 1850] Reference
After this, bicause he was in dispaire to haue issue by his second wife, about Whitsuntide he sent ouer his daughter Maud the empresse into. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (3 of 12) Henrie I.] Reference
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