"May day" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... shone, and the sky was blue, and the fields were quite green, and all the flowers were very bright indeed, because it was May Day. ...
— The Book of Dragons • Edith Nesbit
... in park or woodland in its outdoor arrangement. Is suitable for co-educational schools, girls' schools, girls' Summer camps. Is appropriate for Hawthorne's Birthday (July 4), Arbor Day, May Day, or any day during Spring and Summer. In its indoor form it can be given in school halls or in a small theater. In this form it is appropriate for co-educational schools, girls' schools, settlements. It can be given any time during the Autumn, ...
— Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People • Constance D'Arcy Mackay
... settled, and Richard and Dorothy were married at Hursley on May Day, 1649, before Cromwell's departure to crush the ill-arranged risings in Ireland. Her sister Anne shortly after married John Dunch of Baddesley, with 1000 pounds as her portion. Morley of Baddesley chronicles the marriage in no friendly tone: "When" ...
— John Keble's Parishes • Charlotte M Yonge
... and various gaieties marked the advent of the British in Philadelphia, all of which formed a fitting prelude to the full-blown glories of the Meschianza, which burst upon the admiring inhabitants on that last-century May day."[224] ...
— Woman's Life in Colonial Days • Carl Holliday
... named Carl Ericson crawled from the rods of an N. & W. freight-car at Roanoke, Virginia, on a May day, with spring at full tide and the Judas-trees a singing pink on the slopes of ...
— The Trail of the Hawk - A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life • Sinclair Lewis
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