"All Souls' Day" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... for women or young people had to finish very early unless they had a strong escort to go home with, for the streets were far from safe after dark. Giles's great desire to convoy her home, added to Perronel's determination, and on All Souls' Day, while knells were ringing from every church in London, she roused Aldonza from her weeping devotions at her father's grave, and led her to Dennet, who had just finished her round of prayers at the ...
— The Armourer's Prentices • Charlotte Mary Yonge
... made an excellent medallion of Dr. Wallace during his lifetime, accepted the commission to fashion the medallion for Westminster Abbey, and it was unveiled, by a happy but undesigned coincidence, on All Souls' Day, November 1 1915, together with medallions to the memory of Sir Joseph Hooker and Lord Lister. In the course of his sermon, the Dean said—and with these words we may well ...
— Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences Vol 2 (of 2) • James Marchant
... the work. The Pope now demanded that he should be allowed to see it. A part of the scaffolding was struck, and the delight of the old Pope was unbounded. This was in Fifteen Hundred Nine, but the completed work was not shown to the public until All Souls' Day, ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 4 (of 14) - Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters • Elbert Hubbard
... Haydn's No. 1 vespers (black book). October 30th, Beethoven's mass in C. October 31st, benediction at church All Saints' Day. Requiem and chants. Rossini's "Solenelle" for first time in California. November 1st, Beuhler's mass. November 2d, requiem, All Souls' Day, 2 p.m. November 3d, benediction evening. I sang solo. November 3d, sang requiem at 10 a.m. November 6th, Haydn's 5th mass. Benediction. November 18th, requiem at 8:30. November 20th, Mozart's mass No. 2. November 27th, repeated same mass. ...
— Sixty Years of California Song • Margaret Blake-Alverson |
