If ever you held a pencil in your life, I beg and beseech you to take a memorandum of that tall may-pole. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The house of Grandlieu requires of the dear boy an estate worth a million francs before securing for him the title of Marquis, and handing over to him that may-pole named ❋ Unknown (2007)
And the grawndest crowndest consecrated may-pole in all the reignladen history of Wilds. ❋ Unknown (2006)
There was a tall may-pole carried by a man dressed as a jester, and boys and girls in early English peasant costumes held the ends of the long fluttering ribbons, laughing as the crowd applauded. ❋ Amy Brooks (N/A)
Like a giant may-pole, the largest island held several smaller ones in leash, permitting them to revolve around it, interlacing vines and creepers that were rooted on the mother isle. ❋ Florence Partello Stuart (N/A)
Probably that was the reason why she had been so pleased to hear Hubert Marien say unexpectedly that she was now ready for the portrait which had been often joked about, every one putting it off to the period, always remote, when "the may-pole" should have developed a pretty face and figure. ❋ Various (N/A)
All the figures of the lord, &c. of the Yule, handsomely represented in basso-relievo, stand in the north wall of the nave of Cirencester Church, which vouches for the antiquity of the custom; and, on many of these occasions, they erect a may-pole, which denotes its rise in Druidism. ❋ Various (N/A)
She is more fiery against the may-pole than her husband, and thinks she might do a Phineas 'act to break the pate of the fidler. ❋ John Earle (N/A)
Theres a may-pole and a bonfire in the town, a Fools Pope and Flemish ambassadors in the city, but at the University, nothing! ❋ Unknown (1917)
On this day there was invariably a bonfire on the Place de Grève, a may-pole in front of the Chapels de Braque, and a mystery-play at the Palais de Justice, as had been proclaimed with blare of trumpets on the preceding day in all the streets by Monsieur de Provosts men, arrayed in tabards of violet camlet with great white crosses on the breast. ❋ Unknown (1917)
Each one had chosen his share of the entertainmentssome the bonfire, some the may-pole, others the Mystery. ❋ Unknown (1917)
Meanwhile preparations for the picnic were being made in a number of localities, and the strings of this story's may-pole are again encircling a broad territory! ❋ Lilian Garis (1913)
Another circle of "our may-pole" now swings out to the home of ❋ Lilian Garis (1913)
I think, afterwards (Dr Pearson in a letter of Dec. 17th spoke of the mistake of a may-pole for a signal-staff). ❋ Airy, George Biddell, Sir (1896)
_ Why there, Sister Gillian; there, at our own door almost, -- on the green there, close by the may-pole. ❋ Unknown (1888)
They've got a thumping big fire, and they're dancing round it like a lot o 'little children playing at may-pole. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
And we danced about the may-pole and in the hazel copse, ❋ Alfred Tennyson Tennyson (1850)
They also planted a may-pole before their house adorned with garlands and ribbands, and practised other jollities and impertinences, while they ought to have conducted themselves in a humble and lowly fashion. ❋ John Lothrop Motley (1845)
On this very 1st of May, in accordance with ancient custom, a may-pole was erected on the Voorhout before the mansion of the captive statesman, and wreaths of spring flowers and garlands of evergreen decorated the walls within which were such braised and bleeding hearts. ❋ John Lothrop Motley (1845)
