"Midsummer Eve" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... were plucked by the children and hung up on Midsummer Eve. If a plant was found to be still green on Hallowe'en, the one who had hung it up would prosper for the year, but if it had turned yellow or had died, the child ...
— The Book of Hallowe'en • Ruth Edna Kelley
... Setting of the Watch on Midsummer Eve appears to have been meant the stationing of these armed guards in various parts of the City, which they were to secure from harm on that night only. In the thirty-first year of his reign Henry VIII. abolished the Marching Watch, and substituted for it a permanent watch maintained out of the ...
— The Customs of Old England • F. J. Snell
... Malaterra, Geoffrey Maldon Malines Man Marinetti Mass, the Mazzini Mediaevalism Mendelssohn Meredith, George Metaphor Michelangelo Midsummer Eve Milton Mimosa Mirrors Mob, the Moliere Monks, as epicures Montserrat Mont ...
— Impressions And Comments • Havelock Ellis |
