"Midsummer eve" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... straight across to us, and the other girls watched eagerly to see which of us she would speak to first—for Midsummer Eve is as full of signs and omens as Aunt Jeanne's ...
— Carette of Sark • John Oxenham
... had seen it said that Shakespeare himself could not have imagined a more suitable setting for his play. They were not, of course, allowed to act on Midsummer Night itself, but they went down after tea on Midsummer Eve, when the shadows were growing, and they took their supper—hard-boiled eggs, Bath Oliver biscuits, and salt in an envelope—with them. Three Cows had been milked and were grazing steadily with a tearing noise that one could hear all down the meadow; ...
— Puck of Pook's Hill • Rudyard Kipling
... said, 'that's the magic flower.' And he remembered that it is only magic when you pluck it on Midsummer Eve. ...
— The Magic World • Edith Nesbit
... Setting of the Watch on Midsummer Eve appears to have been meant the stationing of these armed guards in various parts of the City, which they were to secure from harm on that night only. In the thirty-first year of his reign Henry VIII. abolished the Marching Watch, and substituted for it a permanent watch maintained out of the ...
— The Customs of Old England • F. J. Snell
... were plucked by the children and hung up on Midsummer Eve. If a plant was found to be still green on Hallowe'en, the one who had hung it up would prosper for the year, but if it had turned yellow or had died, the child ...
— The Book of Hallowe'en • Ruth Edna Kelley |
