Jubilees

As British journalist Andrew Marr writes in his new book, Diamond Queen, "the jubilees are an invented tradition, which allow the monarchy to dominate the crowded news agenda of a busy country." ❋ ELIZABETH RENZETTI (2012)

God sends these times to the world and to men as 'jubilees' in which all who have lost an estate, be it of a calling or a social position, may regain it or win a new one. ❋ Various (N/A)

In some areas, low-oxygen pockets have caused so-called "jubilees" where blue crabs haul themselves suddenly out of suffocating water. ❋ Darryl Fears (2011)

Other studies indicate that severely low oxygen levels in early July contributed to "jubilees"

Held at the company's swank headquarters, the jubilees were equal parts circus and revival meeting, with themes like the Gold Rush-style "big dig" in 1954. ❋ Unknown (2011)

“They are saluted with shots they never expected, and it is not orations or music that remind one of jubilees but moans and screams.” ❋ C. J. Chivers (2010)

What he is said to have disliked were jubilees, which to him were "the beginning of an end." ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is great to see so many jubilees being celebrated. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He viciously destroyed the city of Palestrina and was threatened with hell by Dante; but he was also the pope who orchestrated the jubilee celebrations of the year 1300, starting the fashion for jubilees ever after. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Seven Presentation Sisters to celebrate 50th jubilees Saturday ❋ Unknown (2006)

With this issue, the Courier salutes those priests who have faithfully served the Diocese of Winona and are celebrating jubilees in 2006. ❋ Unknown (2006)

His vivacious wife was a skillful pianist who accompanied Sam in his postprandial singing of the spirituals and jubilees of his Missouri youth. ❋ Ron Powers (2005)

Then rose & swelled out above those common earthly sounds one of those rich chords, the secret of whose make only the jubilees possess, & a spell fell upon that house. ❋ Unknown (2003)

I think that in the jubilees & their songs America has produced the perfectest flower of the ages; & I wish it were a foreign product, so that she would worship it & lavish money on it ❋ Unknown (2003)

Which makes me believe, if the empty seats of angels be not filled with other kind of people than those, we shall not have the final judgment these seven thousand, sixty and seven jubilees yet to come, and so Cusanus will be deceived in his conjecture. ❋ Unknown (2002)

For it never came to pass since the great rain, nor shall the like occur in thirteen jubilees hereafter, that two parties contradictorily contending in judgment be equally satisfied and well pleased with the definitive sentence. ❋ Unknown (2002)

And in the course of celebrating the jubilees, you want to bring out the old soldiers who still survive. ❋ Unknown (1999)