 | William Hone - 1868 - 846 páginas
...hanging up of n Imsli of misletoe in the kitchen or servant's hall, with ther/ian/i attached to it, that the maid, who was not kissed under it at Christmas, would not be married in that year." This natural superstition still prevails. Christmas Doughs, Pies, and Porridge. The season offurs its •... | |
 | Thomas Kibble Hervey - 1845 - 436 páginas
...danger of all the evils of old-maidenism. For, according to archdeacon Nares, the tradition is, " that the. maid who was not kissed under it, at Christmas, would not be married in that year," — by which, we presume, the archdeacon means in the following year. Accordingly, a branch of this... | |
 | 1847 - 214 páginas
...kiss. Mr. Archdeacon Nares, in his valuable glossary, adds, " there was a charm attached to it that the maid who was not kissed under it at Christmas would not be married in the year." The Puritans, rigid religionists, naturally disgusted with the excesses which had grown... | |
 | Tracts for the people - 1847 - 800 páginas
...off a berry at each kiss.** Mr. Archdeacon Nares adds, there w<is this " charm attached to it, that the maid who was not kissed under it at Christmas, would not be married the next year. CHRISTMAS EVE. — Bees are snid to be heard to sing on Christmas Eve, as if it were... | |
 | 1852 - 672 páginas
...hanging up of a bush of mistletoe in the kitchen, or servants' hall, with the charm attached to it, that the maid who was not kissed under it at Christmas, would not be married in that year."] Trinity Chapel, Knightsbridge. — Was Trinity Chapel, Knightsbridge, which has been rebuilt several... | |
 | William Wallace Fyfe - 1860 - 208 páginas
...up of a bush of mistletoe in the kitchen, or servants' hall, with the charm attached to it — that the maid who was not kissed under it at Christmas would not be married that year." Were it our part to offer a word of counsel to the ladies, we should still very much incline... | |
 | 1864 - 450 páginas
...up of the bush of Mistletoe in the kitchen, or servants' hall, with the charm attached to it, that the maid who was not kissed under it at Christmas would not be married in that year." (1st series, vol. v. p. 13.) Mr. Shirley Hibberd thinks this account altogether unsatisfactory. " Would... | |
 | 1864 - 444 páginas
...up of the bush of Mistletoe in the kitchen, or servants' hall, with the charm attached to it, that the maid who was not kissed under it at Christmas would not be married in that year." (1st series, vol. v. p. 13.) Mr. Shirley Hibberd thinks this account altogether unsatisfactory. " Would... | |
 | 1865 - 1054 páginas
...plucking off a bcrrjr at each kiss." Mr. Archdeacon Nares adds " there was this charm attached to it, that the maid who was not kissed under it at Christmas would not be married the next year." A plant possessing such wondrous charms necessarily forms a prominent feature of the... | |
 | Robert Nares - 1867 - 580 páginas
...the hanging up of a bush of it in the kitchen, or servants' hall, with the charm attached to it, that the maid, who was not kissed under it at Christmas, would not be married in that year. MISTER, s. Kind, or sort of; eaid to be from meatier, French. A word of Chaucer's time, but continued... | |
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The custom longest preserved was the hanging up of a bush of mistletoe in the kitchen, or servants' hall, with the charm attached to it that the maid who was not kissed under it at Christmas would not be married in that year. 
