"High Holiday" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the bounds of Fife? Where be our heralds, our pursuivants, our Lyon, our Marchmount, our Carrick, and our Snowdown? Let the strangers be placed at our board, and regaled as beseemeth their quality and this our high holiday; to-morrow ...
— Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... over the valley, as we roll on toward Bigorre; every village and hamlet we pass is aglow with colored lanterns and varied illuminations, and all the Pyrenees seem to be keeping high holiday. Stalwart songs are resounding from porches and through the windows of the local cafes when the carriages reach Ste. Marie; we respond with the notes of America, as we drive out from the village, and catch an answering cheer ...
— A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees • Edwin Asa Dix
... holding high holiday that evening. The buildings were decorated with flags and streamers; bonfires cast a lurid light on the animated scene; crowds of people went to and fro, laughing merrily and cheering the nobles and ladies who rode by in their gorgeous carriages. ...
— My Sword's My Fortune - A Story of Old France • Herbert Hayens |
