Whit-Tuesday

On my first Whit-Tuesday in South Africa I marched with the triumphant

With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back Edward P. Lowry

I would remark, that Montem was changed from January to Whit-Tuesday, about a hundred years since: --

Notes and Queries, Number 20, March 16, 1850 Various

We returned, and now before the inn, on the green plat around the Maypole, the villagers were celebrating Whit-Tuesday.

The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 James Gillman

Office of the Dead (24-25), the response Lux perpetua lucebit sanctis tuis of the Office of the Martyrs during Easter time (35), the introit Accipite jucunditatem for Whit-Tuesday (36-37), the words

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

The show was over for that day, and the Queen commanded that the tilt should be run again on the following morning, which was Whit-Tuesday.

Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney Emma Marshall 1864

It was now Whit-Tuesday, and the lilacs all in blossom; and why I thought of the time of year, with the young death in my arms, God or his angels may decide, having so strangely given us.

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

It was Whit-Tuesday, and the lilacs all in blossom; and why I thought of the time of year, with the young death in my arms, God or His angels, may decide, having so strangely given us.

Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor 1862

It is to be on Whit-Tuesday; and papa is going to take me and Aunt Charlotte; for old Aunt Mabel says Aunt Charlotte must go.

The Heir of Redclyffe Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

And on Whit-Tuesday, as the King sat at the banquet, lo! there entered a tall, fair-headed youth, clad in a coat and a surcoat of diapered satin, and a golden-hilted sword about his neck, and low shoes of leather upon his feet.

The Mabinogion Anonymous 1853

And on Whit-Tuesday, as the king sat at the banquet, lo, there entered a tall, fair-headed youth, clad in a coat and surcoat of satin, and a golden-hilted sword about his neck, and low shoes of leather upon his feet.

The Age of Chivalry Thomas Bulfinch 1831