Yule Log

We sit around the fireplace, sing carols, and enjoy a supper of stewed lentils, pâté, boudin blanc (white pudding), a green salad, and a bûche de Noël (yule-log). ❋ Colette Rossant (2004)

Or, failing live flames, toward the TV playing your yule-log video. ❋ Cynthia Rowley (2002)

In the south the head of the family kindles the yule-log, or _bûche-de-Noël_, which is supposed to continue burning until the arrival of spring. ❋ William Francis Dawson (N/A)

Of course you spent Christmas at the old home in England -- one of those yule-log and plum-pudding ❋ Meredith Nicholson (1906)

As the yule-log blazed upon the hearth, our ancestors set up huge stones and danced round them, thus worshipping the god of fertility. ❋ Unknown (1897)

But there is a joy by the hearth when the yule-log is burning. ❋ Unknown (1892)

While the company sat round the yule-log blazing on the hearth, eating mince-pies, or plum porridge, and quaffing a bowl of well-spiced elder wine, the mummers would enter, decked out in ribands and strange dresses, execute their strange antics, and perform their curious play. ❋ Unknown (1892)

The frozen grass was strewn with wrenched limbs, and here and there was an ash or a sugar-tree splintered and prostrate, but wily Uncle Ephraim was looking for a yule-log that would burn slowly and burn long; for as long as the log burned, just that long lasted the holiday of every darky on the place. ❋ John Fox (1891)

The belief was well rooted, he added by way of instance, that any one who sat on a yule-log would pay in his person for his temerity either with a dreadful stomach-ache that would not permit him to eat his ❋ Unknown (1881)

But always the yule-log is brought home in triumph. ❋ Unknown (1881)

Nanoun marching behind, carried between them the yule-log slung to shoulder-poles. ❋ Unknown (1881)

Château together -- startling Esperit and Magali standing hand in hand, lover-like, in the archway; and when we were come to the terrace, and were seated snugly in a sunny corner, the Vidame told me of a very stately yule-log gift that was made anciently in Aix -- and very likely elsewhere also -- in feudal times. ❋ Unknown (1881)

The laying of the yule-log followed; a ceremony so grave that it has all the dignity of, and really is, a religious rite. ❋ Unknown (1881)

Esperit -- first casting some fagots of vine-branches on the bed of glowing coals -- placed the yule-log upon the fire. ❋ Unknown (1881)

In those times, when in comfortable homes the Christmas feast was set, there would be heard outside a plaintive voice calling: "Give something from your yule-log to the sorrowful poor!" ❋ Unknown (1881)

Our procession took on grand proportions, I should explain, because our yule-log was of extraordinary size. ❋ Unknown (1881)

Grace always is said before the Great Supper -- a simple formula ending with the prayer of the yule-log that if another year there are no more, there may be no less. ❋ Unknown (1881)

Instantly the vines blazed up, flooding the room with brightness; and as the yule-log glowed and reddened everybody cried ❋ Unknown (1881)

"I'm gonna go [drop] a yule-log" "[Wait], don't shit in the [fireplace]!" ❋ Xkcd 1435 (2011)

#1: i need to [use the bathroom], excuse me. #2: i wouldn't [go in] there, i just dropped a yule log [bomb]... ❋ Bleeewwee (2007)

Tidings and [joy] everyone, I have [broken] out the yule log, let's [rejoice]! ❋ Cootie Brown (2007)

I’ll be [yule logging] after Christmas dinner. All that [egg nog] made my [Yule logging] experience a little wet. ❋ Eaton Holgoode (2017)

Man, I have to stop eating so much [broccoli] [with cheese]. I was [bunged up] for days until I finally gave birth to a yule log. ❋ Trainable (2008)

James: Hey, where's Tom at? [Corey]: He's in the [washroom] [dropping] a Yule Log ❋ JimmidyJames (2009)

Dude, I [totally] [gave] her the [Yule Log] last night! ❋ GoingToAlpha (2010)

I saw your mom lick the [yule log] last [nite] after she [stick it in] her coocheroo. ❋ ZAN*** (2003)

That [Thai food] I had yesterday made me drop a few [yule] logs this morning and now my asshole is on fire. Think I'll have to [skip school]. ❋ Clutchmaster (2009)

I gave Susie the [yule log] [last Christmas] [eve]. ❋ Coopyloopyjz (2016)