On my first Whit-Tuesday in South Africa I marched with the triumphant. From Wordnik.com. [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference
I would remark, that Montem was changed from January to Whit-Tuesday, about a hundred years since. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 20, March 16, 1850] Reference
We returned, and now before the inn, on the green plat around the Maypole, the villagers were celebrating Whit-Tuesday. From Wordnik.com. [Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1.] Reference
It is to be on Whit-Tuesday; and papa is going to take me and Aunt Charlotte; for old Aunt Mabel says Aunt Charlotte must go. From Wordnik.com. [The Heir of Redclyffe] Reference
The show was over for that day, and the Queen commanded that the tilt should be run again on the following morning, which was Whit-Tuesday. From Wordnik.com. [Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney] Reference
Office of the Dead (24-25), the response Lux perpetua lucebit sanctis tuis of the Office of the Martyrs during Easter time (35), the introit Accipite jucunditatem for Whit-Tuesday (36-37), the words. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference
And on Whit-Tuesday, as the king sat at the banquet, lo, there entered a tall, fair-headed youth, clad in a coat and surcoat of satin, and a golden-hilted sword about his neck, and low shoes of leather upon his feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Age of Chivalry] Reference
And on Whit-Tuesday, as the King sat at the banquet, lo! there entered a tall, fair-headed youth, clad in a coat and a surcoat of diapered satin, and a golden-hilted sword about his neck, and low shoes of leather upon his feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Mabinogion] Reference
On this second Whit-Tuesday I stood reverently beside the new-made grave of this famous Pretorian general, who had proved himself to be one of the best of the Boers, one of the few concerning whom it is commonly believed that his word was as good as his bond; and thus all strangely a shot ineffectually fired from one of our guns in Cape Colony, claimed eighteen months afterwards this whole group of victims in far-off Pretoria. From Wordnik.com. [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference
Whit-Tuesday saw her rise almost with the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference
(Whit-Tuesday), after a few miles 'walk. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 379, July 4, 1829] Reference
(Whit-Tuesday, 20 May, 1521). From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
Whit-Tuesday was the great day, in preparation for which the two large schoolrooms of Briarfield, built by the present rector, chiefly at his own expense, were cleaned out, white-washed, repainted, and decorated with flowers and evergreens - some from the Rectory-garden, two cart-loads from Fieldhead, and a wheel-barrowful from the more stingy domain of De Walden, the residence of Mr. Wynne. From Wordnik.com. [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference
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