"Martinmas" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... about the Martinmas, When nights are lang and mirk, The carline wife's three sons cam' hame, And their hats were ...
— Ballad Book • Katherine Lee Bates (ed.)
... high nowadays, and the catches are occasionally so large (the other day a steam drifter brought in over 200 pounds worth of fish to Grimsby as the result of one night's fishing), that the great Martinmas fishing of the east coast has become a gamble in which fortunes may be made and lost. Many a boat earns over 2000 pounds from October to December. A lucky skipper may take 200 pounds for his share of the home fishing ...
— Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" - "Herring Merchants" • James Blyth
... I'll allow. But I've a-been your servant, Sir John, for twenty-two year come nest Martinmas; and you know—or else you ought to know—that for your good opinion, being set to it, I would stand awake till I watched out every ...
— Sir John Constantine • Prosper Paleologus Constantine
... sall be my bed, The sheets sall ne'er be pressed by me; Saint Anton's well sall be my drink; Since my true love's forsaken me. Martinmas wind, when wilt thou blaw, And shake the green leaves off the tree? O gentle death, when wilt thou come? For of ...
— The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 - Sorrow and Consolation • Various
... understands, by Christ's first lesson to himself, that undipped people may be as good as dipped if their hearts are clean; helps, forgives, and cheers, (companionable even to the loving-cup,) as readily the clown as the king; he is the patron of honest drinking; the stuffing of your Martinmas goose is fragrant in his nostrils, and sacred to him the last kindly rays of departing summer. And somehow—the idols totter before him far and near—the Pagan gods fade, his Christ becomes all men's Christ—his name ...
— Our Fathers Have Told Us - Part I. The Bible of Amiens • John Ruskin
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