Do we say holly or holy

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On one side was the bowling-green, which the girls had taken possession of for their croquet-ground,a wonderful enclosure surrounded by high hedges of holly, three hundred years old and more; on the other, the ruins.

His figure showed against the holly in full outline.

For me, uninterrupted hadst thou slept Among the holly shades and close hadst kept The mistery of thy lines, till men might bee Taught how to reade, and then, how to reade thee.

His friends, at the suggestion of Dean Milman, selected a house in Kensington, the rooms of which were small, except the library, which opened upon a beautiful lawn, adorned with flowers and shrubs; it was called Holly Lodge, and was very secluded and attractive.

The hamper was all decorated with holly, and a little flag was stuck in the top.

In half a minute Mrs. Cratchit enteredflushed, but smiling proudlywith the pudding like a speckled cannon ball, so hard and firm, smoking hot, and bedight with Christmas holly stuck into the top.

What though we have a little merry sport With flowrie gyrlonds, and an Oaten pipe, And jolly friskins on a holly-day, Yet is a shepheards cure a greater carke Then sweating Plough-men with their busie warke.

To meete his trewe And most unfeigned affection, heare in face And viewe of this our holly brotherhoode, As if in open coort with this mi breath

CHAPTER XXXVII HOLLY AND MISTLETOE June Holiday Home awoke early on the 24th of December, for everybodywhich means fifteen of the residentswas going to spend the day with Mrs. Randolph.

The favors were knots of mistletoe and holly, and a roasted goose held the place of honor upon the table.

" From the "Louisville Advertiser," Dec. 17th, 1838:"A startling tragedy occurred in this city on Saturday evening last, in which A.H. Meeks was instantly killed, John Rothwell mortally wounded, William Holmes severely wounded, and Henry Oldham slightly, by the use of Bowie knives, by Judge E.C. Wilkinson, and his brother, B.R. Wilkinson, of Natchez, and J. Murdough, of Holly Springs, Mississippi.

Athyrium Hart's Tongue and Walking Leaf The Shield Ferns: Christmas and Holly Fern Marsh Fern Tribe The Beech Ferns

Acute tinglings and chilling thrills would pervade her entire body when she read that on Christmas every wretch seemed to become for that day, at least, a gracious man; that the sight of a few penny tapers, or the possession of a handful of sweet stuff, or a spray of holly, or a hot-house bloom, would appear to convert the worst of them into children.

unto the green holly: Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly, Then heigh ho!

His smart blue bonnet, with sprig of holly and eagle's feather, was already recognised as the Scottish headgear.

If a breath of air stirred, it made no sound here; for there was not a holly, not an evergreen to rustle, and the stripped hawthorn and hazel bushes were as still as the white, worn stones which causewayed the middle of the path.

He went to war and soon after the end he came to Holly Grove.

The house stood back from the road, with a spacious old-fashioned garden before it; a garden with flower-beds of a Dutch design, sheltered from adverse winds by dense hedges of yew and holly; a pleasant old garden enough, one could fancy, in summer weather.

The woman opened a low door at the end of this hall, and ushered Gilbert into a sitting-room with three windows looking out upon a Dutch bowling-green, a quadrangle of smooth turf shut in by tall hedges of holly.

The Campfire Girls at Holly House, by Julianne De Vries, pseud.

HANFORD, JAMES HOLLY. Works.

STEPHENSON, HOLLY STEVENS.

Holly Stevens Stephenson (C); 2Dec63; R326942.

Holly Stevens Stephenson (C); 2Dec63; R326941.

The finer things in the life of Miss Selma Holly.

holy 10913 occurrences

He pondered on the Holy Scriptures as well as on the canons of the Church.

How can it appreciate his deep spiritual life, his profound communion with God, his burning zeal for the defence of Christian doctrine, his sublime self-sacrifice, his holy resignation, his entire consecration to a great cause?

In an evil hour this venerable sage falls down upon his knees before the assembled cardinals, and reads aloud this recantation: "I, Galileo Galilei, aged seventy, on my knees before you most reverend lords, and having my eye on the Holy Gospel, which I do touch with my lips, thus publish and declare, that I believe, and always have believed, and always will believe every article which the Holy Catholic Roman Church holds and teaches.

Thus do those votive offerings mysteriously convey admiration for the constancy and sympathy with the posthumous union of two hearts who transposed conjugal tenderness from the senses to the soul, who spiritualized the most ardent of human passions, and changed love itself into a holocaust, a martyrdom, and a holy sacrifice.

For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true Church Militant; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery; And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks; Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to. HOBBES AND LOCKE.

The challenge to all thinking people is to resist the temptation to fall into yet another polarised, nationalist, or God-forbid, holy posture.

Some of his best-known poems are "The Holy Fair," "The Cotter's Saturday Night," and "Tam O'Shanter"; wrote many of the most popular songs in the English language.

Author of "The Poetry of Tennyson," "Sermons to Young Men," "Little Rivers," "The Other Wise Man," "The First Christmas Tree," "The Builders, and Other Poems," "The Lost Word," "Fisherman's Luck," "The Toiling of Felix, and Other Poems," "The Blue Flower," "Music, and Other Poems," "Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land," "The Mansion," and "The Unknown Quantity."

Some of them, on a sudden, perceived Dante and his guide, and were going to seize them, when Virgil resorted to his usual holy rebuke.

Nothing but the precious materials of which these exquisite structures are composed could have saved them from the holy hands of the Inquisition, which intentionally destroyed all the Roman antiquities of Cordova.

Here the fringed arches, the lace-like filigrees, the wreathed inscriptions, and the domes of pendent stalactites which enchant you in the Alcazar of Seville, are repeated, not in stucco, but in purest marble, while the entrance to the "holy of holies" is probably the most glorious piece of mosaic in the world.

His admiration and reverence were so great that he called the fat landlady, who, on learning that it had been made in Jerusalem, and that I had visited the Holy Sepulchre, summoned her children to see it.

she said; "cross yourselves, kneel down, and kiss this holy seal; for, as long as you live, you may never see the like of it again."

Be slowe to wrath, obey thy Unckle still, Submit thy selfe unto Gods holy will, In deede and word see thou be ever true; So brother, childe, and kinsfolkes, all adue.

"Their true and only god is called 'Brahma,' which must not be confounded with Brahma who was created by the former, who is the true, eternal, holy, and unchangeable light of all time and space.

Everything tending to this end is to him venerable and holy, and it is in this respect alone that he worships the Lingam.

Near the temple are the most holy places in the town, namelythe so-called "holy well" and the Mankarnika, a large basin of water.

Near the temple are the most holy places in the town, namelythe so-called "holy well" and the Mankarnika, a large basin of water.

Every pilgrim who visits Benares must, on his arrival, bathe in this holy pool, and, at the same time, make a small offering.

The place for burning the dead is very near the holy pool.

I could see the Holy Virgin among flowers and precious stones and lights.

Intoxication with the music of chants and organ, drowned in the scent of incense and flowers, hung about with scapularies, rosaries, consecrated medals, and holy images, he, like his companions, assumed a certain air of self-importance and wore a smug, sanctified look.

He sat down on his bed and looked round gloomily and morosely at the holy-water stoup of gilt porcelain, the print commemorating his First Communion, the toilet basin on the chest of drawers, and stacked in the corners piles of pasteboard and ornamental paper for binding.

How happy the sons of Italy who died for their mother in that thrice holy battle!

The Holy Bible; Hertel's new standard alphabetically indexed Bible, edited by Patrick Fitzwater, A. F. Schauffler, and John A. Hertel.

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