1) Candlemas. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Candlemas, (kan´dlms) (KEY) , Feb. 2, Christian festival commemorating the Purification of the Blessed Virgin and the Presentation of Christ in the Temple. The name...
2) Candlemas Day. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...of burning candles to the goddess Feb rua, mother of Mars, to scare away evil spirits. 1 "On Candlemas Day Candles and candlesticks throw all away."...
3) Burnt Candlemas Day. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...and Haddington, and then retreated from want of provisions. The Scots call the period "Burnt Candlemas." (See "Epochs of History," England under the Plantagenets;...
4) Candlemas by Alice Brown. William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. 1922. Anthology
of Massachusetts Poets
...Before ye rise and blow. O furry living things, adream On winter s drowsy breast, (How rest ye there, how softly, safely rest!) 10 Arise and follow where a gleam...
5) Candlemas. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Christian feast commemorating the purification of the Virgin Mary and the presentation of the infant Jesus in the Temple. 2. February 2, the day on which this feast...
6) 1297. Candlemas by Alice Brown. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An
American Anthology, 1787-1900
...Before ye rise and blow. O furry living things, adream On Winter s drowsy breast, (How rest ye there, how softly, safely rest!) 10 Arise and follow where a gleam...
7) 14. Candlemas by Alice Brown. Rittenhouse, Jessie B., ed. 1917. The Little
Book of Modern Verse
...Before ye rise and blow. O furry living things, adream On winter s drowsy breast, (How rest ye there, how softly, safely rest!) 10 Arise and follow where a gleam...
8) February. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...the ancient Romans. (Latin, feb ruo, to purify by sacrifice.) 1 The 2nd of Feb ruary (Candlemas Day). It is said, if the weather is fine and frosty at the close of...
9) King's Chair. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...A seat made by two bearers with their hands. On Candlemas Day the children of Scotland used to bring their schoolmaster a present in money, and the boy who brought...
10) 18. May Magnificat, The. Hopkins, Gerard Manley. 1918. Poems
...and I Muse at that and wonder why: Her feasts follow reason, Dated due to season— Candlemas, Lady Day; 5 But the Lady Month, May, Why fasten that upon her, With a...
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