"Lammas" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fell about the Lammas tide, When moormen win their hay, The doughty Earl of Douglas rode Into ...
— The Caged Lion • Charlotte M. Yonge
... depones, That the said paper was put in his hands by the said Duncan Clerk, who at the time told him it was a premium of twenty pounds Scots to hold his tongue of what he knew of Serjeant Davies: Depones, That while the deponent was in the panel Duncan Clerk's service, and about Lammas seventeen hundred and fifty-one, he showed to the deponent a long green silk purse, and that he showed also to the deponent the contents which were in it, viz. sixteen guineas in gold, and some silver: And being interrogate what was the occasion of showing this purse and money to ...
— Trial of Duncan Terig, alias Clerk, and Alexander Bane Macdonald • Sir Walter Scott
... Lammas flood o' '68," said the landlord, as he led the way to supper. "I was a young man at the time, and remember it well. Half the dams on ...
— The Story Of Kennett • Bayard Taylor
... make men see that their gods had all the time been wrong, and harder still to root out the age-long growth of rite and symbol. But on the old religion might be grafted new names; Midsummer was dedicated to the birth of Saint John; Lugnasad became Lammas. The fires belonging to these times of year were retained, their old significance forgotten or reconsecrated. The rowan, or mountain ash, whose berries had been the food of the Tuatha, now exorcised those ...
— The Book of Hallowe'en • Ruth Edna Kelley
... a neighbour, I will tell you who I am," she answered. "No; I am of the tribe of Bluebells, but my name is Lammas, and I have been given to understand that I was christened Margaret. Being a floral family, they call me Daisy. A dreadful American man once told me that my aunt was a Bluebell and that I was a Harebell—with two l's and an e—because my hair is so thick. I warn you, so that ...
— The Upper Berth • Francis Marion Crawford
... lady, and my honored master," said Peter gravely, in reply, bowing respectfully where he stood, waiting to take his master's glass—"I am past the age to think of a wife: I am seventy-three coming next 'lammas, ...
— Precaution • James Fenimore Cooper |
