| 单词 | Lammas |
| 例句 | But it was past Eastertide, and before Lammas. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z One thing I did know from hard experience: a master's promise to a prentice is likely to be redeemed only at the last Lammas, as they say—which is to say never. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Lammas replied we was, & this new Officer, who was some Muster-Master, directed us ride North to the Shore to a Town where we should find others of our New Hampshire Brethren and there await Orders. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She is also a generous collaborator, lending her warm vocals to projects as different as Don Paterson's Lammas, Harvey Brough's Requiem in Blue and Crass Agenda. Christine Tobin & Liam Noble 2010-09-22T21:00:00Z Lafferty then got up and ran towards Lammas Road, discarding his makeshift mask on to the pavement. Bin bag-clad robber caught by cigarette butt DNA 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z Lammas, which falls on Aug. 1, is the least known today. May begins with a special day and hosts the Flower Moon 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z “Our own view is that people are eager to get back to the office,” Lammas said. Workers are quietly trickling back to Los Angeles offices 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z “Jobs are combining in this digital world,” Mr. Lammas said. G.E., the 124-Year-Old Software Start-Up 2016-08-27T04:00:00Z The word Lammas derives from ‘loaf mass’, the name of an ancient celebration traditionally held at sunset on 1 August with the cutting of the first corn. In pictures: English ritual year 2013-05-18T08:29:31Z After Lammas corn ripens as much by night as by day. Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases With a Copious Index of Principal Words 2012-03-29T02:00:12.730Z The Snowdrop sank at Lammas tide, All under the yeasty spray; On Christmas Eve the brig Content Was also cast away. The Land of Song, Book II For lower grammar grades 2012-02-16T03:00:03.167Z Hudson Pacific owns 15 million square feet of offices for rent in the West, including buildings in Vancouver, Canada, that have returned to about 20% occupancy, President Mark Lammas said. Workers are quietly trickling back to Los Angeles offices 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z The old ways, said Mr. Lammas, the engineering chief, had merit. G.E., the 124-Year-Old Software Start-Up 2016-08-27T04:00:00Z The time of the 'defence' extends commonly to 'Lammas day:' hence the expression 'Lammas-meadow' to designate such land. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z Those lambs which are very far behind the rest must be prepared for the butcher, as they would make but a poor figure at the Lammas sales. A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases. 2011-12-04T03:00:03.890Z XIV It had been Henry Harper's intention to go on across the Lammas and make inquiries about the night school. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z It fell about the Lammas time, When wightsmen won their hay; A' the squires in merry Linkum, Went a' forth till a play. English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) 2011-11-18T03:00:30.847Z Here numerous sheep are fed; it produces, towards the south and east, turnips, barley; and, when properly manured, Lammas wheat and artificial grasses. Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. 2011-09-26T02:00:29.140Z I rather doubt Lammas, which is found as Lammasse in the Hundred Rolls, and which corresponds with a French Lamas. Surnames as a Science 2011-09-26T02:00:27.097Z The season was harvest, and the Lammas floods had brought up the bull or sea trouts. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 2011-09-09T02:01:06.280Z "It's called the Lammas Cup now though we used to call it the Lammas Open," Graham Hutchison told the Diary over a whisky in the town's Whey Pat Inn. The Open 2010 Diary: Tiger Woods' putter switch of 'no concern' to supplier 2010-07-18T21:01:00Z Later George acquired in the same way the small oblong kitchen garden on the river bank, and bought the freehold of the Lammas land on the opposite bank of the river. Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History According to some antiquarians, Lammas is a corruption of loaf-mass, as our ancestors made an offering of bread from new wheat on this day. Folk-lore of Shakespeare “It fell about the Lammas time When Yeomen wonne their hay, The doughty Douglas ’gan to ride In England to take a prey.” Border Raids and Reivers There were few That knew it; for the high State Funeral Was held upon the morrow, Lammas morn. Collected Poems Volume Two But on Lammas day, which is a kind of market day, the pubs in St Andrews would open all day from 11am. The Open 2010 Diary: Tiger Woods' putter switch of 'no concern' to supplier 2010-07-18T21:01:00Z To set slips immediately after Lammas, is the surest way. A New Orchard And Garden or, The best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good, for a rich Orchard: Particularly in the North and generally for the whole kingdome of England There being many sorts of Wheat, as the White or Red Lammas, the bearded Kentish Wheat, the gray Wheat, the red or gray Pollard, the Ducks-bill Wheat, the red-eared-bearded Wheat, &c. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World Lots Road, running parallel to the river, retains 54 in its name a memory of the “lots” of ground belonging to the manor, over which the parishioners had Lammas rights. Chelsea The Fascination of London And a cart-mare To draw afield my dung, The while the drought lasteth; And by this livelihood we must live Till Lammas time. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 After Lammas, corn ripens by day and night. The Proverbs of Scotland He was born the day the brig on the Fleckie Road gaed down, in the year o' the great flood; and since the great flood it's twelve year come Lammas. The House with the Green Shutters That same evening, "the Friday before Lammas day," the King reached Rouen and placed his troops all round the town under cover of the darkness. The Story of Rouen At the same time, removing the solitary Day from the forlorn seat which had been assigned to him, he stationed him at his own board, somewhere between the Greek Calends and Latter Lammas. A Masque of Days From the Last Essays of Elia: Newly Dressed & Decorated I wrote on my cuff: "Miss Lammas wishes me to explain that I am your neighbour, Cairngorm." The Upper Berth The lad's mind is rooted, his passion red-fruited, The head I caressed is another's delight; And I, though I stray through the year sorrow-suited, At Lammas, for Willie's sake, robe me in white. Ionica We were soon out of Wadi Lammas, and went over stony plains with basalt scattered over them, and no possible place to encamp, which I was keenly on the look-out for. Southern Arabia Last year all the farmers had been Latter Lammas men. Round About a Great Estate In Halliwell's Dictionary, "hoisting the glove" is said to be practised at Lammas Fair, in Devonshire: but why? Notes and Queries, Number 184, May 7, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. At Coventry, in what are called Lammas Lands, the allowance is two horses and one cow. The Customs of Old England The Annals of the Lord Jesus Christ, the year this Life of St. Patrick was written, 1477; and to-morrow will be Lammas Night. The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings There are only some very bad wells for the cattle, and they have to fetch drinking-water from afar, from Ghenab and Lammas. Southern Arabia The Lammas fairs were held under the authority of the Archbishops, who assumed the rule of the city and suburbs for the period of the fair. Life in a Mediæval City Illustrated by York in the XVth Century A wild, chill, wintry blast ushered in September, if the Lammas spates had tarried, when they came they brought destruction in their train. The Guinea Stamp A Tale of Modern Glasgow Wasn't he a mere boy, only one-and-twenty years come next Lammas; and surely it stood to reason that he wanted sometimes to be checked and scolded too. Lha Dhu; Or, The Dark Day The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two As Lammas was a Christian harvest thanksgiving, so also was Lugnasad a pagan harvest feast, part of the ritual of which passed over to Samhain. The Religion of the Ancient Celts We were to ride five hours to the next water after Bir Lammas. Southern Arabia Lammas Day falls on the first day of August, and was in Saxon times the Feast of First-fruits; sometimes a loaf of bread was given to the priest in lieu of first-fruit. From John O'Groats to Land's End Lammas is a shortened form of the word Loaf-mass, or feast of the loaf. Old English Sports, Pastimes and Customs Lammas Day.—Why was the 1st of August called "Lammas Day?" Notes and Queries, Number 36, July 6, 1850 The surrounding belt of Lammas lands on which the freemen have the right of pasturing their horses and cows, has prevented any increase in the limits of the city. Rides on Railways The "Snowdrop" sank at Lammas tide, All under the yeasty spray; On Christmas Eve the brig "Content" Was also cast away. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. Lammas Day, the first of August, literally "the loaf-mass" day or festival day at the beginning of harvest, one of the cross quarter days, Whitsuntide, Martinmas, and Candlemas being the other three. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge In the names of days, the word mass also drops one s; as, Christmas, Candlemas, Lammas. The Grammar of English Grammars Two definitions are commonly given to the word "Lammas." Notes and Queries, Number 36, July 6, 1850 And after this, on the morning after Lammas Day, King William was shot.' Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine Have ye never heard o' the little man, the fourth back from yoursel', who killed the Miller o' Bewcastle at the Lammas Fair? The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies But in the meantime came the Earl Robert up at Portsmouth twelve nights before Lammas; and the king with all his force came against him. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle The remains of this common-field system are still evident in many parts of the country, the fields being termed “lot meadows,” or “Lammas lands.” English Villages That next Sunday was Lammas Day and a solemn feast. The Forest Lovers "This beats the Lammas flood o' '68," said the landlord, as he led the way to supper. The Story of Kennett It was at the ford of the Clachlands Water in a tempestuous August, that I, an idle boy, first learned the hardships of the Lammas droving. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies And thereafter on the morning after Lammas day was the King William shot in hunting, by an arrow from his own men, and afterwards brought to Winchester, and buried in the cathedral. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle It fell about the Lammas tide, When muirmen win their hay, That the doughty Earl of Douglas rade Into England to fetch a prey. Ballad Book Ever since, on Lammas night, —hold still, horse!—I dream of fire and flame, and of Goldenborough in the glare of it. Hereward, the Last of the English George Houdlass, convicted at Lammas Assizes, 1815, of mare stealing.—Ordered to be transported for the term of his natural life. The Reminiscences of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton) At the same time, removing the solitary Day from the forlorn seat which had been assigned him, he stationed him at his own board, somewhere between the Greek Calends and Latter Lammas. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia Juliet's first—and only—love came to her only eleven years after she had been weaned, "come Lammas." Without Prejudice It fell about the Lammas tyde, When husbands win their hay, The doughty Douglas bound him to ride, In England to take a prey. Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy Since Lammas was a twelvemonth, I hear nought of her; my letters are unanswered. Burlesques How long is it now to Lammas tide? Romeo and Juliet That was how I first asked Margaret Lammas to be my wife, and I will agree with anyone who says I behaved very foolishly. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: American It fell about the Lammas tide,When the muir-men win their hay,The doughty Douglas bound him to rideInto England, to drive a prey. A Collection of Ballads It fell and about the Lammas time, When hushandmen do win their hay; Earl Douglas is to the English woods, And a' with him to fetch a prey. Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy |
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