"Lammas" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 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 |
