| 单词 | maypole |
| 例句 | There was the Distaff Dance, a maypole without men, held in the spring. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Henry looks Philip square in the face and says, “I’ve been gay as a maypole since the day I came out of Mum, Philip.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Ms. Driscoll’s simple maypole dance is sweet — innocent, not childish — and reveals a softening in her canvas. Dance Review: Faye Driscoll Draws In the Audience at Danspace 2014-03-10T20:40:05Z Standards would rise and formerly illiterate brats in key stage II would relax after double quantum physics by dancing around the maypole singing settings of Horace’s verse in Latin, just like in Michael Gove’s dreams. Why too much choice is stressing us out 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Bender, in a recent video call, said that having worked with Perrineau on “Lost,” he knew the actor to be a “wonderful maypole” whose warmth drew his castmates close. Harold Perrineau Finds His Way 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z Back in the Middle Ages, the point of covering a maypole — a midsommarstang — in leaves and flowers was an appeal to the gods for a generous harvest. A Midsummer Day’s Dream in Sweden 2013-05-10T18:10:13Z But nothing was as magnificent as when the performers gracefully wove pieces of fabric around a maypole and then unraveled them. Dance Review: The Dances of Africa, as Filtered Through the Americas 2011-05-29T21:58:56Z Scandinavia House invites children to honor this occasion with traditional festivities, including learning midsummer songs, making flower wreaths and decorating a maypole. Spare Times for Children for June 15-21 2012-06-14T22:46:48Z On the contrary, take a peek at the Habsburg family lineage which between the early 1500s and the 1700s, nearly straightened their tree into a maypole. To "House of the Dragon" viewers, when it comes to Targaryen incest ... it's all relative 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z But the mood shifts as pieces of Velcro and fabric dropped from the ceiling, strung across the stage and held by audience members form a structure resembling a maypole. Dance Review: Faye Driscoll Draws In the Audience at Danspace 2014-03-10T20:40:05Z In “Cribles/Wild Governors,” dancers enact a maypole dance to reveal the relationship between individuals and a group. Free Dance in Summertime New York 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z June 20 Dance around the maypole, Swedish meal, music, 6 p.m., June 2014 calendar of events 2014-05-11T04:00:00Z May Queens, maypoles and flower crowns are familiar elements of many real-life midsummer rituals. Midsommar: what the hell just happened? Discuss with spoilers 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z I remember the herring and the new potatoes, the ring-dance around the maypole, some song about a frog, the fetching girls with wildflowers in their hair, the shameless boogieing to Abba. Swedish Islands Offer an Escape From Stockholm 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z The supervisor provides a kind of maypole for the rest of the vivid characters in the book to revolve around. Books of The Times: ?House of Stone,? a Memoir by Anthony Shadid 2012-02-26T21:56:30Z Before him a post topped with a giant grasping papier-mâché hand towered high like a maypole. At 89, Still Making Art (and Bread) With a Message 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z In Washington, that’s the communal worship of the cherry blossom followed in other communities in the United States and, especially, in Europe with folk festivals and maypole dancing. Spring is here. Mother Nature doesn’t care about a pandemic. 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z Or ballerina aerialists form a kind of human maypole, as their silky white capes stream down like moth wings. ‘Odysseo’: Lovely horses, riders prancing in a dreamscape 2014-02-20T22:48:30Z The maypole was the concern of the menfolk, led by Uncle Stig, who would first unload a tractor full of foliage. A Midsummer Day’s Dream in Sweden 2013-05-10T18:10:13Z Beginning Tuesday, the company presents Frederick Ashton’s cheerful, farm fresh “La Fille Mal Gardée,” complete with clogs, maypoles and dancing hens. Dance Listings for May 20-26 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Dana Taylor, a model, stood straight as a maypole as Reed Krakoff circled, paused, then peered intently at his handiwork. Reed Krakoff Will Show His First Collection Since Leaving Coach 2014-02-05T23:49:10Z She developed a cast of characters and motifs that populated frieze-like drawings, or were hung – gurning and snarling – from a maypole, which now fills the Serpentine's south gallery. Pioneers of the Downtown Scene: a walk on the wall side 2011-03-02T21:30:01Z MAY DAY AT THE GIBSON: An evening of floral punches, tea, finger sandwiches and a maypole. 6-9 p.m. A week of food, wine and bloody mary festivals 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z A dockside slice of May Day madness with a maypole and other folky attractions. Maldon Mud Race, Ely Eel Day: new events this week 2013-05-04T05:00:21Z Spring seems like a particularly strange time to be told to sit still indoors because it’s normally a season of so much blooming, coming out of hibernation, gathering together, maypoles, celebrations, graduations. In This Moment of Solitude, Books Can Be Our Passports 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z At first gunmetal grey with the sun behind it, the macabre maypole dance has now morphed into a wobbly funnel. Twister tales: stormchasing in Tornado Alley, Oklahoma 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z English peas and their shoots, artichoke hearts and purée, bacon bits and rhubarb vinaigrette circled a king salmon fillet as if it were a maypole. Restaurant Zoe: Rustic flair at new digs on Capitol Hill 2012-06-07T20:38:06Z Just behind the maypole, Frankie was running — frolicking, really — through a meadow of wildflowers, her fingertips grazing the waist-high “tickly grass.” A Midsummer Day’s Dream in Sweden 2013-05-10T18:10:13Z For example, they exiled an Anglican lawyer named Thomas Morton who rejected Puritan theology, befriended local Indigenous people, danced around a maypole and sold guns to the Natives. Why the Puritans cracked down on celebrating Christmas 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z Or a dancer might trail more rope, like a leash held by other performers who wind it around her in maypole fashion. Review: Afro-Colombian Dancing Reawakens the Joyce Theater 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z So far this year, she’s boxed under New York’s Brooklyn Bridge on MTV’s Video Music Awards, and she became a human maypole on the network’s European Music Awards last Sunday. Katy Perry Planning Something Special To Open AMAs 2013-11-13T15:32:43Z SAT Scandinavian arts and crafts bazaar, kids’ Scandinavian costume parade, food, music, genealogy, entertainment, activities for children, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; maypole raising, 2 p.m.; Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2013-07-25T21:31:58Z If you can’t get, or make, a maypole, you need wildflowers, all kinds and lots of them. A Midsummer Day’s Dream in Sweden 2013-05-10T18:10:13Z First Lady Lou Hoover tried to solve the problem in 1929 by focusing the event on folk dancing, including maypole, Swedish, English, and Native American dances, all performed by Girl Scouts. Raccoons, rabbits and Sean Spicer: The camp and contradictions of the White House Easter Egg Roll 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z The show also includes a zoetrope of miniature dogs spinning around a maypole. An Artist Brings Alive the Worlds Dancing in Her Head 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Wander back in time and check out a reproduction of a 14th-century English village, games, maypole dancing, minstrels, sheepshearing and authentic medieval crafts including blacksmithing and longbow archery, from noon-5 p.m., The Week Ahead: Opening Day, Hilary Hahn and derby party 2014-04-23T22:19:40Z Perfect for pre-gaming an Easter parade, it was softly floral and grassily festive, but with a body as firm as a maypole. How the Orange-Wine Fad Became an Irresistible Assault on Pleasure 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z As my date whispered on Wednesday, “It gets a bit maypole — but I like it.” 2010-02-15T22:28:00Z May Day was a glorious celebration, the girls in their starched white dresses, the boys in crisp shirts, weaving crepe paper around the maypole. The enlightening legacy of the Rosenwald schools 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z He holds the string in his mouth as they circle around him in the manner of maypole dancers or those binding someone to be burned at the stake. Review: In John Jasperse’s ‘Visitation,’ Mortality Seduces 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z “A group of kids surrounded me, like I’m a human maypole. Dancing around it going: ‘Your daddy’s left your mummy.’” 'I haven’t seen a healthy version of marriage': children of divorce on the lasting impact 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z She matches her upward inflections to the curve of her smile, skipping into a hula hoop like a maid at the maypole. Macbeth; Circle Mirror Transformation; The Paper Architect – review 2013-07-13T23:05:59Z First, you’ll want a maypole — even if it’s only three feet tall — to cover with leaves and flowers. A Midsummer Day’s Dream in Sweden 2013-05-10T18:10:13Z Lefse Fest: Scandinavian arts and crafts bazaar, kids’ costume parade, food, music, genealogy, entertainment, activities for children, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; maypole raising, 2 p.m.; Fests and cultural celebrations | Community Corner 2013-07-26T21:23:07Z Forty years later, Barrow takes and uses it as a highly idiosyncratic maypole around which stories of the brothers' childhood, adolescence and early adulthood cavort and whirl. Animal Magic: A Brother's Story by Andrew Barrow ? review 2011-02-26T00:07:33Z The resulting aromatic beverage, garnished with sliced strawberries and a fresh sprig of the herb, traditionally was served up on May Day, a celebration of spring to be quaffed during maypole fertility rituals. How to release the secret garden scent of adaptable sweet woodruff 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z Celebrate spring with a community potluck picnic, flower headdress-making, live music, children’s activities and, of course, a dance around the maypole, a symbol of spring, fertility and new beginnings. What’s happening around Seattle this week: Boats Afloat, May Day and more 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Rather, it’s when a birch tree maypole descends from the skies and Soo leads the chorus in an exhilarating “The Lusty Month of May.” Review | ‘Camelot’ gets the Aaron Sorkin treatment, with no happily-ever-aftering 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z We have danced around the homeless maypole too many times in the past, expecting different results. Homelessness: Going in circles 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z While Los Angeles staggers through its driest 23-year period in 1,200 years, the sculpture is a disconcertingly festive maypole that is simultaneously brutal and sad. Review: As drought deepens, nine L.A. artists think about water 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z The festival’s centerpiece of dancing around the maypole as they braided a colorful pattern captivated a young Constance. In Maryland, a segregated school is one of many in the country to be preserved 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z There was something merry in all this going around, akin perhaps to dancing around the maypole, albeit in multi-ton vehicles that can cause injury or death. These Americans Are Just Going Around in Circles. It Helps the Climate. 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z It features parades, maypole dancing, hot-air balloon rides and war reenactment groups. Delaware festival canceled for 2nd year amid pandemic 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z During the first lockdown, the members made face masks and opened their own tuck shop, while holding meditation sessions and enjoying socially-distanced campfire meals and maypole dancing. Covid-19: 'Living with 50 people has been a blessing' 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z Light from an infinite array of distant stars and galaxies can wrap around the black hole like ribbons around a maypole, again and again before coming back to your eye, or your telescope. Infinite Visions Were Hiding in the First Black Hole Image’s Rings 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z There's a dancing scene around a maypole with a miraculous Florence Pugh performance midway through and dancing's a sport, so I'm counting this as a sports movie. The best sports movies to stream during your self-isolation - Golf Digest 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z Models danced with umbrellas, ran, played soccer, tied ribbons around a multicolored maypole and, at the end, embarked on an all-out park carnival, replete with a musical band and drummers. Sheer spectacle: Paris is the real star of menswear shows 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z In southern Germany, the annual maypole festival features traditional dancing and music. May Day celebrated around the world 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z The cost of repairing the maypole is about £14,000 and while fundraising can be tight it is a "labour of love" for the village. There's nowt so queer as folklore 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z Mr. Parker is a maypole at London’s dance of elites. A Crisis Management Guru Bungles a Crisis 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z The May Day king and queen and the teachers would lead the ceremonies in which each class took turns dancing around the maypole. Opinion | May Day memories from 1950s Washington 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was dressed in blindingly shiny gold for a number in which young dancers circled him like a human maypole while he gamely tried to shimmy to Stevie Wonder's "Signed Sealed Delivered." Skaters show their edge as 'Dancing with the Stars' special all-athletes edition gets underway 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Watching sickly youngsters dance around a maypole wasn’t the only feature of May Day. Perspective | May Day used to be a big deal in Washington. Could it ever be again? 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z Once every three years in Barwick-in-Elmet, a small village to the east of Leeds, one of England's tallest maypoles is taken down to be repaired and repainted. There's nowt so queer as folklore 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z “Little girls in white dancing round maypoles. But they are very far from that.” Unleash the Burryman! Britain's weirdest folk rituals 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z Imagine three kids running around a maypole, forming a chain with their arms. Common-enemy thinking is tearing a diverse nation apart 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Daily events for kids feature a maypole dance, pumpkin decorating, scavenger hunts and a root-beer float garden. Whether you like beer, homes or salmon, there’s a weekend fest for you 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z It’s making a comeback in Britain, the Guardian recently reported, spurred on by such advances as collapsible maypoles. Perspective | May Day used to be a big deal in Washington. Could it ever be again? 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z It began as a pagan commemoration of the transition to summer from spring, replete with maypole dancing. From France to Indonesia, Marking May Day With Protests 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Later, they come together briefly to dance around the maypole. Unleash the Burryman! Britain's weirdest folk rituals 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z Governance froze for months as Clinton’s tormentors danced around the maypole with Monica’s blue dress. Hillary Clinton is no ‘enabler’ of Bill's sexual indiscretions 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z The park would feature an arch with the inscription “From Scandinavia to Astoria,” a maypole, a plaza and bas-relief sculpture panels depicting early immigrants. Astoria plans park to honor Scandinavian immigrants 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z Primitive humans once celebrated May 1 with fertility rituals — think maidens with garlands dancing around a priapic maypole. Perspective | May Day used to be a big deal in Washington. Could it ever be again? 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z Many people dance and sing around a newly raised maypole and bonfires are lit to keep evil spirits away. Your Friday Briefing 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z If you’re a Druid, Pagan, Wiccan or Swede you’ve probably got your plans sorted and have a nice maypole or prehistoric monument to convene around. Cruel summer: how you should use today’s extra daylight – if you must 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z On Friday morning, as the UK digests the results of the EU referendum, Swedes will be tucking into pickled herring and dancing around maypoles as part of their annual midsummer festivities. EU referendum: Could Brexit lead to Sweden 'Swexit'? - BBC News 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z The annual maypole has been moved from a corner next to the town hall into the centre of the town square. Fear of migrants and loathing of elites drive a small Austrian town to far right 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z In the modern United States, May Day traditions of dancing around a maypole are seen as the height of innocence. The Most Controversial Maypole in American History 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z On one hand, May Day is known for maypoles, flowers and welcoming the spring. The Bloody Story of How May Day Became a Holiday for Workers 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Swedes will celebrate Midsommar with maypoles and feasts of pickled herring, grilled salmon, and strawberries. In China on the Solstice, Dog Meat Is What's for Dinner 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z Probably the best-known May Day activity is the maypole dance. What is May Day all about? 2014-04-29T21:23:55Z We’d tease apart his rather rococo approach to sentences for meaning and argue over his conclusions, but it was a single maypole that five men – four brothers and a father – pivoted around. Media Decoder : Minneapolis Newspaper Gets a New Life, but I Remember the Old One 2014-04-02T15:25:17Z Sweden does midsummer in the most elaborate fashion, with the midsommarstang maypole and dancing, and flowers in the hair. Solstice and the lack of symbolism in Britain 2013-06-21T16:53:07Z "I am dancing at the maypole today and it's going to be fun!" Chat: Your bank holiday activities 2013-05-06T18:21:38Z The 56 year-old producer said that the Chinese audience were very fond of the initial bucolic scenes, which included maypole dancing, farmyard animals and a cricket match. Theatre producer hopes to take London Olympic opening ceremony to ... Beijing 2012-07-31T12:16:25Z He kicked off with apple-cheeked villagers prancing round the maypole and frolicking in their feudal rural idyll, but then came the sound of ominous drums. London 2012: Opening ceremony – reviews 2012-07-28T23:07:10Z Theirs was the job of interpreting, explaining and trampling all over Danny Boyle's fast-paced, high-def presentation of Great Britain from the time of maypoles and hay bales to the current day. NBC lambasted over banal butchering of opening ceremony – and rightly so 2012-07-28T13:36:00Z First Lady Michelle Obama, the show switched to the playful recreation of an English rural idyll with grassy meadows, fences, a water mill and maypoles. Games open with rousing romp through British life 2012-07-28T01:30:10Z The centre of the stadium was transformed into an English pastoral idyll complete with grassy meadows, fences, hedges, a water mill, maypoles and even a cottage with smoking chimney. World awaits exuberant London ceremony 2012-07-27T20:20:00Z Each of Great Britain's four nations - England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland - will be represented by a maypole topped with their national flowers. The juicy bits: A sneak peek at opening ceremony 2012-07-26T19:41:12Z All the jolly things have disappeared from the world—war and highwaymen and pirates and troubadours and crusaders and maypoles and the Inquisition. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z I remember that, too: out of a scruple that he took, in spiced conscience, those cakes he made were served to bridales, maypoles, morrices, and such profane feasts and meetings. Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature 2012-03-29T02:00:13.900Z The Morris dances are associated with May-day, and are danced round a maypole to a lively and capering step, some of the performers having bells fastened to their knees in the Moorish manner. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z The hires at BuzzFeed were more like maypoles: young writers, native to the Web who are bathed in both the ethos and practice of social media. The Media Equation: At BuzzFeed, the Significant and the Silly 2012-02-05T22:43:25Z He was delighted that Boyle chose to feature maypoles but disappointed that Morris dancers - often ridiculed for their folksy costumes - don't get to take part. The juicy bits: A sneak peek at opening ceremony 2012-07-26T19:41:12Z In medi�val times every village had its maypole, round which the lasses and lads hied them to dance on May Day. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z He's pretty tall; not what can be called a maypole. The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 2 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:21.457Z They held dialogues on the subject, while with pantomimic license the chorus of Egyptian lasses was dancing round the Dragon as if it were a maypole. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z Morton and his followers fashioned a maypole from an 80-foot pine tree and danced around it, following folk customs in Europe. Pilgrims Gave Thanks, Then Gave Up on Peace: Peter C. Mancall 2011-11-23T08:36:01Z He stood six feet one inch, appeared uncommonly active, and straight as a maypole. Wrestling and Wrestlers: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting 2011-09-30T02:00:19.420Z We may here remark that the maypole and the German Christbaum have a Pagan origin, the type of both being the ash Yggdrasill.” Cultus Arborum Phallic Tree Worship 2011-09-12T02:00:27.807Z It is always harder to change customs than creeds, and religious observances live on, as every maypole on a village green tells us, long after the beliefs which animated them are forgotten. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z Here the French put up the maypole in 1796; there the beautiful abbess met her lover; that old bowed man was the one who struck the Austrian colonel at Milan before 1859. Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua 2011-08-25T02:00:33.233Z They likened the maypole to the biblical calf of Horeb, the golden idol that ancient Israelites danced around as they awaited Moses’s return from Mount Sinai. Pilgrims Gave Thanks, Then Gave Up on Peace: Peter C. Mancall 2011-11-23T08:36:01Z Great maypoles! they go about with the Fusiliers like a pair of colors. Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories 2011-08-25T02:00:30.323Z "Yes, my lady," replied the young maypole, grinning from ear to ear, and shewing thereby a very fine set of teeth. The Widow Barnaby Vol. I (of 3) 2011-07-01T02:00:16.980Z There were fatal maypole accidents and a particularly pungent end was faced by a man who fell into a cesspit when relieving himself. Real-life tragedy 2011-06-08T01:00:24Z A tall maypole stands on the green, the only one I remember to have seen in Yorkshire. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z This peaceable troublemaker who danced around the maypole deserves a place in American history alongside the turkey-eaters of Plymouth. Pilgrims Gave Thanks, Then Gave Up on Peace: Peter C. Mancall 2011-11-23T08:36:01Z As straight as a maypole, As little as a pin, As bent as a bucker, And as round as a ring. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England 2011-04-01T02:00:34.340Z Patriots Coach Bill Belichick knew better, of course, since he is the maypole around which so much of the annual animus with the Jets revolves. Patriots Have Their Game Faces On 2011-01-11T21:48:03Z How are you going to get over 'maypole'? The Lighter Side of School Life 2010-12-24T03:00:31.150Z This evolving model suggests journalism is not a megaphone of one-to-many, but a maypole where many gather and the people formerly known as the audience see themselves reflected on the screens. The Media Equation: Reuters Insider, Like YouTube for Traders 2010-05-09T23:51:00Z Location was the talk of Austin, the maypole we all literally pivoted around, and the bounce seemed back, at least in social media. The Media Equation: Location Is Being Redefined for the Digital Age 2010-03-21T23:56:00Z Miss Tempest, who loved to revive bygone customs, had introduced maypole plaiting, morris dances, and other ancient "joyous devices" at the school, and the girls had taken them up with enthusiasm. A Pair of Schoolgirls A Story of School Days The maypole dance was in full progress when Lady Knob-Kerrick entered the meadow. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle On May-Day the young people of Quebec tripped about a maypole surmounted by a triple crown in honour of Jesus, Maria, and Joseph. Old Quebec The Fortress of New France It is good to remember that on that very spot, the maypole once stood. John and Betty's History Visit One day I came across a party of merry little aspens who were in a circle around a grand old pine, as though using the pine for a maypole to dance around. Wild Life on the Rockies We had rifles and guns to shoot bears and wolves; and large rods, large as small maypoles, to catch salmon, and small rods to secure the bait. A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition A little to the right of the maypole Lady Knob-Kerrick beheld the Rev. Andrew McFie, who was endeavouring to give a representation of his native sword-dance to an enthusiastic group of admirers. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle The first of May would come round again; they would choose their own Queen and twine their own maypole. Highways and Byways in Surrey The innkeeper directed him to the place, where he found the King of Youth setting up a maypole by torchlight; whom he plucked by the sleeve and drew aside for a secret talk. Merry-Garden and Other Stories But, although ballads are no longer the vocal accompaniments to dances round the maypole, old ballads are still sung to dance tunes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" They wanted a maypole, and the one they now had seemed cut out on purpose for them. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen And the doctor trotted off in the direction of the maypole. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle No amount of priests would be able to set the inhabitants of the Belgian Congo dancing around a maypole singing the while glad songs handed down by their fathers. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study I heard children's voices, the sound of bells, and the song of birds; the most glorious melodies—and all came from the elves' maypole, namely, my sausage-peg. What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales So he left her, and hastened on, and, behold! there stood before him the village maypole, bedecked with roses and ribbons, and a living garland of youths and fair maidens dancing round it. Fifty-Two Stories For Girls Such a maypole had never been seen in all the world as this. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen The cross became decayed, and a maypole was erected either on its site or close beside it. The Strand District The Fascination of London The book was an attack on players as the ministers of Satan, on theatres as the Devil's chapels, on hunting, maypoles, the decking of houses at Christmas with evergreens, on cards, music, and false hair. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 They wanted to have a maypole of their own, and the one they now had seemed cut out for them; and they decorated it so that it was beautiful to behold. What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales Why on earth a child should have to dance round a maypole just because children danced round a maypole centuries ago, I cannot understand. Nights in London ‘Come, Master,’ he said to the Brownist, ‘you dance round the maypole?’ Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada The maypole stood until 1713, when the remaining portion was carried away to Wanstead Park, where it was used for holding a telescope. The Strand District The Fascination of London At any rate, it appears that the cobblers' apprentices chose to call their maypole "Fidlovatchka," and that they carried it about on their feast-day, the Wednesday after Easter. From a Terrace in Prague He was of great height and extreme leanness, resembling a maypole rather than a man. In Kings' Byways The younger girls, during the winter course of dancing lessons, had learned to plait the maypole, and to execute some lively morris dances. The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story "And as for that maypole of a daughter, she's nothing but a gawk." The Making of a Soul "Around that area side they take their stand, Where the tall maypole o'erlooked the Strand; And now—so Anne and Piety ordain— A church collects the saints of Drury Lane." The Strand District The Fascination of London There with great ceremony she was crowned by her court, and afterwards led the dance round the maypole. White Lilac; or the Queen of the May And who was this shy and awkward maypole, who had taken the place of dear, cuddlesome, wee Pam? Betty Trevor There were to be morris dances, a maypole dance, a procession of decorated bicycles, and numerous athletic competitions. The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story He had stuck the Twenty-first of June next to the Twenty-second of December, and the former looked like a maypole by the side of a marrowbone. Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year He affects neighbourhoods, and avoids solitude, and loves to build in orchards and about houses; with us he perches on the vane of a tall maypole. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 Not only had they to wonder who would be Queen, but they must meet in the Vicarage garden and learn how to dance round the maypole, singing at the same time. White Lilac; or the Queen of the May The maypole and the dancing were as nothing to it. A Little Girl in Old Detroit She had expected a maypole, a dance of peasants, gay dresses, smiling faces, songs, fruit, coffee, flowers, and tasteful but cheap wares of small kinds in picturesque booths. Six to Sixteen A Story for Girls In the parliamentary ordinance, too, for the observance of the Sabbath, they inserted a clause for the taking down of maypoles, which they called a heathenish vanity. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell She had evidently been one of those tall thin maypoles of women who have but little tenderness in them. Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron She danced round the maypole with her court, and led the May-Day song as gaily as if her pleasure had been quite perfect. White Lilac; or the Queen of the May She came, as the German ballad says, light-hearted as the young lover who is going to plant a maypole before the window of his betrothed. Bohemians of the Latin Quarter A merry stave, a cup of cherry wine, or a maypole dance? Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People The actual dromenon performed was of the same nature as that which in more modern times has induced villagers to make Jacks-in-the-Green and to dance round maypoles. Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 The whole congregation, men and women, dance about this strange maypole, and a great drinking bout, in which all men and women alike join, ends the feast. Ancient Art and Ritual It was a maypole of sycamore branches, placed there by the Foresters!!! Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books The first act consisted of a series of dances, including a very pretty maypole dance. In Indian Mexico (1908) MUSIC: Any quaint old-time maypole dance will do for the maypole rout. Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People This evening we will have fireworks in the square, roast a whole ox, invite the neighbors, and dance about a maypole. In Luck at Last Through all varieties in detail the main intent is the same, and it is identical with that of the rite of the holy Bull in Greece and the maypole of our forefathers. Ancient Art and Ritual The cotillon itself was almost over; the maypole figure adding a flutter of bright ribbons to the array of flags and bunting, evening dresses, and uniforms. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India The tall girls stretched themselves till they looked like maypoles, and said, "Poor thing!" Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales In the center of the stage a maypole decked with streaming ribbons that are somewhat faded. Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People Noel is far too artistic to marry such a maypole. Red Money The Dithyramb is the song of the birth, and the birth of Dionysos is in the spring, the time of the maypole, the time of the holy Bull. Ancient Art and Ritual The present maypole was erected on May 29th 1882, replacing one which had come into existence on the same day twenty years before. The Evolution of an English Town This is Sister Angela; this tall maypole is Sister Winifred, and this little being here is Sister Jerome, who was the youngest till you came. Sister Teresa Towards the left background, at some distance from the maypole, a forest bed of pine boughs, sweet fern, and moss. Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People She might be a "maypole"—hated and unattractive—but at least she towered high above all the fairest and most blue-blooded beauties of her "Consort's" Court. Love Romances of the Aristocracy The dance tends to be circular because it is round some sacred thing, at first a maypole, or the reaped corn, later the figure of a god or his altar. Ancient Art and Ritual Not on account of your lanky maypoles of daughters—for I have not the least wish to be five times running a mother-in-law, a fate which will probably overtake you. The Dangerous Age You know, a regular maypole, seven feet high. The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories Mistress, 'tis time you learned to trip it about the maypole. Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People Here is an actual village maypole, restored of course, and a beautiful Perpendicular church, also restored, but unspoilt. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter We have seen how a forest people, dependent on fruit trees and berries for their food, will carry a maypole and imagine a tree-spirit. Ancient Art and Ritual When London lads made holiday In dewy hours o' th' month o' May, And footed it with Moll and Kitty, Among the maypole garlands gay Be sure they plaited "None-so-Pretty." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 15, 1917 There are innumerable persons with eye-glasses and green garments who pray for the return of the maypole or the Olympian games. Heretics "I seem to remember," went on Smith, "a great girl decked out like a maypole running across white sand in that Place of Bulls at Seville—but I forgot, you weren't there, were you?" Fair Margaret I warrant that he would have aided Colonel Pride to shoot the bears and hack down the maypoles.' Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 This is the most elaborate maypole ceremony that we know of in ancient times. Ancient Art and Ritual From that time she became sad and pensive; the rose left her cheek, and she was never more seen to dance round the maypole on the green. Wanderings in South America "What, shall we have our ballets and our roundels again? our lusty carols for Christmas, and our mirthful springs to trip it round the maypole?" The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day The King is providing them with a maypole and music outside North Gate. Master Olof : a Drama in Five Acts A large maypole was planted, and on the top was attached a wren. Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period That is all that is left in most parts of England of the Queen of the May and Jack-in-the-Green, though here and there a maypole survives and is resuscitated by enthusiasts about folk-58dances. Ancient Art and Ritual She is more fiery against the maypole than her husband, and thinks she might do a Phineas' act to break the pate of the fiddler. Character Writings of the 17th Century Had it been yester evening, I would have met the best blade among these men at arms as blythely as ever I danced at a maypole. The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day I may well be called a maypole, for the Senses do nothing but dance a morrice about me. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 All their time is spent in talk and sylvan wandering, with music and dancing round maypoles. Nonsenseorship The maypole was of course at first no pole cut down and dried. Ancient Art and Ritual Go back to the freckled maypole you left for me: you've been fretting for her long enough. The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet At intervals some guest would rush out and fire his musket once again at the maypole, returning for more hospitality with a sense of duty well performed. The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism Venetian masts, maypoles and festal arches spring up. Ulysses In the distance of the print is the celebrated Strand maypole, although its situation there does not coincide with that marked out in more recent prints. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 365, April 11, 1829 In the villages of Upper Bavaria Dr. Frazer13 tells us the maypole is renewed once every three, four, or five years. Ancient Art and Ritual She showed us the spot where the maypole was yearly planted, And where the bandsmen stood While breeched and kerchiefed partners whirled, and panted To choose each other for good. Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses Each had made his choice; one, the bonfire; another, the maypole; another, the mystery play. Notre-Dame De Paris The next was too tall: 'What a maypole!' said she. Grimm's Fairy Tales Then having twined me round with wreaths of flowers till I thought of the maypole on Bungay Common, they rested from their labours, filled with admiration at their handiwork. Montezuma's Daughter These ceremonies of Death and Life are more complex than the simple carrying in of green boughs or even the dancing round maypoles. Ancient Art and Ritual They took away his maypole and his original rural life and promised him instead the Golden Age of Peace and Commerce inaugurated at the Crystal Palace. What's Wrong with the World Our own maypole dances may be instanced as one survival of the ancient worship of the male generative principle. Bygone Beliefs: being a series of excursions in the byways of thought |
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