Lexicographical Neighbors of Holytide
Literary usage of Holytide
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Peveril of the Peak by Walter Scott (1879)
"The wren, to seek for which used to be the sport dedicated to the holytide, was
left unpursued and ..."
2. The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott (1895)
"63. holytide. For tide, see on iii, 478. Holy days became holidays ? — 71.
gored = pierced and torn [Ginn] ? clotted with blood; hence, pierced so as to ..."
3. Poet Lore (1898)
"Of the thirty, twenty-one, and a portion, ' Part I.,' of another, ' The holytide,'
have been taken without change from ' Days and Hours,' the publication of ..."
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