Then we said "Merry Christmas" once more and we went Away from the holly and cedar, And home we all scattered, quite glad and content, And henceforward our Lord is our Leader.
To-day, moreover, crowning the composition, there was the delicate pungency of the hollythat topped the Queen Anne mirror and the Mantegna prints.
Now holly and mistletoe girdle Its halls and its homesteads, And every biped is beaming With peace and good will.
Dey used holly bush or spice bush bark, boiled to a tea and drunk for sickness.
It was a big holly bush wid red berries all over it.
I am an old branch, happily torn from a vile trunk and transplanted into good soil, but still knotted and rough like the wild holly of the original stock.
To another of my neighbours … I was telling the story about the poor woman at Holly Hill, who had nearly dipped her rushes once too often.
The year before I left Hampshire, a poor woman at Holly Hill had dipped some rushes in grease to use instead of candles.
In fact of late years there had been no chance for such exhibitions, for Randall did not have a "look in" at the pennant, as Holly Cross used to say.
The nine played a game Saturday with an outside team, more for practice than anything else, and won it "hands down," as Holly Cross said.
A little later Langridge and Holly strolled up to the buildings where the three hundred students of Randall College were housed.
Holly caught, the period of Kerr's suspension not being up yet.
Holly Cross, as he deftly juggled three stones with one hand.
He was sure he could strike out at least two men, and he did so, including Langridge and Holly Cross.
Holly and Langridge passed into the east dormitory, where they had been preceded by the other group of freshmen.
Langridge, who was beginning to "scent a rodent," as Holly Cross said.
With that, he made me a polite bow; and, with another to Miss Dartle, went away through the arch in the wall of holly by which he had come.
In her right hand she carried a holly branch; but the strangest part of her dress was a pair of long sleeves, as green as the very grass.
The name of the house seemed to have more appropriateness than is usually the case, for the garden was surrounded by a thick holly hedge, and the beds were planted with holly trees so dark that they appeared to be almost black in hue.
She gave a wriggle of contentment, and at that moment the cab turned in at the gate of Holly House.
The arrival at Surbiton Station was a breathless experience, though it was a distinct blow to her vanity to find that no deputation from Holly House was in waiting to receive Patricia O'Shaughnessy with the honours she deserved.
If you do what you are told and work hard, you will have a very good time at Holly House.
When the cabman, when directed to drive to Holly House, preserved an unmoved stolidity of feature, and had no remark whatever to offer on the subject.
It was six weeks later that the girls in Holly House heard a sharp, wailing cry from within the portals of Miss Phipps's private room, and looked at each other with eyes of sympathetic understanding.
At the end of ten minutes what the pupils of Holly House did not know about the O'Shaughnessy family may be safely described as not worth knowing!
It was already dark when the crocodile passed in at the gates of Holly House on its return from the expedition to town, and Miss Phipps gave instructions that the girls were to go straight to their rooms to dress for the evening.
She had been a servant in the Phipps family, and had accompanied "her young lady" when Holly House was bought and the school first founded.
The May-pole was usually decorated with the flowers of the hawthorn, a plant as emblematical of the spring as the holly is of Christmas.
And after supper Svengali and Gecko made such lovely music that everybody was sobered and athirst again, and the punch-bowl, wreathed with holly and mistletoe, was placed in the middle of the table, and clean glasses set all round it.
We watched him across the lawn and path, and through the gate, till his footfalls died out there in the field, and his figure was lost in the black shadow of the holly hedge.
And for long I sat, just watching the moon creep up, and hearing the thin, dry rustle of the leaves along the holly hedge.
In the field, a wan huddle in the blackness, the dismantled sheep lay under a holly hedge.
This ditch he made very deep, and the earth thrown out he built into a kind of rampart, and by its outer edge he put a row of young holly plants, which a good-natured woodman made him a present of.
While I watched the pretty creature, musing sadly the while on the ugliness of men's garments, a sudden storm of violent rasping screams burst from some holly bushes a few yards away.
He was advised to plant the holly behind the ditch, but he thought his plan the best, and to protect the young plants he made a little fence of odd sticks and bits of old wire and hoop iron.
There were several small remembrances from relatives and friends, a box of cigars from Miss Bradley; and beneath all a parcel in brown wrapping paper and unadorned by either Christmas seal, holly or ribbon.
They'd have jailed him sure at Holly Springs if we hadn't stood by him.
That night found me at Holly Springs and in consultation with the United States marshal and the commanding officer of the little garrison of infantrymen.
In the picturesque cottage opposite to the chief entrance to the grounds of Holly Lodge the philanthropist Judge Payne died in 1870; David Williams, founder of the Royal Literary Fund, and Dr.
What is now called Holly Hill used to be called Cloth Hill, because it was the public drying-ground, and even now it is sometimes used for that purpose.
He would personally move on Holly Springs, and McPherson would meet him there with the forces now at Corinth.
Unfortunately this Union victory was not followed up with sufficient celerity, and Van Dorn managed to retire to Holly Springs and there reorganize his shattered forces.
There are detachments at Holly Springs near Senatobia, the present termini of the railroads from the South; and all the people of the country are armed as guerrillas.
His army now occupied the line from Memphis to Corinth, and he proposed to move at once against Pemberton, who was with the Rebel army near Holly Springs, behind the Tallahatchie River.
The high, steep bank overhanging the Water of Leith, with the little village nestling at its foot, is very picturesque; but the pride of the place lies in its magnificent cedars, and the tall old holly hedges in the garden.
But in the gathering and the retreat our old sharpshooter under his hollybush had been left behind; and now we heard him again, chanting his terrible imprecations on the enemy.
For cover there were holly thickets here and there, and into one of these I plunged, creeping on hands and knees to gain a hidden view-point.
How Richard divined my thought and purpose, I know not; but when I would have slipped down to Yeates's holly bush he laid a detaining hand on my arm.
So I broke cover on the forest side of the holly thicket with a yell as fierce as theirs, and picked a tree to set my back against, and ran for it.
Twas in this little interval of forced inaction that we heard a most familiar voice issuing from a clump of holly just below our covert; a voice lifted now in fervent prayer and again in Scriptural anathema on the foe.
In mid career, when all the Cherokee wolf pack was bursting through the holly tangle at my heels, two men, a white man and an Indian, ran in ahead, as I supposed to cut me off.
Mrs. Pelham (in pretty evening gown and a spray of holly in her hair, looks wistful and discontented.
Then I bought all my tissue paper and holly ribbon and fancy seals in November; and early in December I had the whole lot tied up and labeled.
Starting at the pudding with holly at the top left-hand corner, we strike out all the puddings in twenty-one straight strokes, taste the steaming hot pudding at the end of the tenth stroke, and end at the second sprig of holly.
But the peculiar part of the thing is that you are required to taste the pudding that is seen steaming hot at the end of your tenth stroke, and to taste the one decked with holly in the bottom row the very last of all.
There are a good many different routes for passing from one sprig of holly to the other in the smallest possible number of moves--twenty-one--but I have not counted them.
The holly berries were red, the leaves glossy and barbed.
It is but Miracle Play again, and truly for no ill ends--” Red holly berries, barbed leaves.
Past the holly copse stretched land of Silver Cross, woodland with a woodman’s path through.
Holly stepped upon the hub of a hind wheel of the grub wagon and hung the hat upon a limb of a live-oak.
Sam Holly saw that his anger was rising and said to him: "Here's where you win or lose, Judge.
