Below him stood his brother idolators, their spotless garments outspread ready to catch the falling sprigs of the mistletoe as they dropped beneath the stroke of the golden pruning-knife.
If the cup has been "turned" during the autumn or winter, probably a year will pass before the event takes place, as the mistletoe indicates delay.
Under the weapons stood a little brass vase in which seven twigs of mistletoe were arranged.
The secret associations of the Sons of the Mistletoe covered the country, and furnished intrepid soldiers to each succeeding revolt against Rome.
Didn't you see the bit ofmistletoe he was holding up?
There was a good deal of laughing, and somebody called for the song, "The Mistletoe Bough.
Miss Abigail quite laughed at it: kisses under the mistletoe were as common as blackberries with us, and just as innocent.
It's like the old fable, told of in 'The Mistletoe Bough,' enacted in real life.
She remained with her back towards me, and pretended to be feeling among the mistletoe for the berries.
He went near, and held up the lamp, so that it illuminated both their faces, and the fantastic boughs of the trees, and the weird bush of mistletoe sparsely pearled with berries.
We could just see the dark bush of the mistletoe between the boughs of the tree.
She put the mistletoe among her furs, looking down at her bosom.
Are there many berries on yourmistletoe this year?
The mistletoe had been discovered, and was being appreciated.
A genus of parasitic shrubs, including the mistletoe of Europe.
We afterwards heard that he had been keeping a secret account of all the kisses that were given and received under the mistletoe bough.
The puzzle was to ascertain just how many kisses had been thus given under the mistletoe bough, assuming, as it is charitable to do, that every kiss was returned--the double act being counted as one kiss.
Are they bringing mistletoe and holly on the country carts into the towns in far-off England?
The Druid's mistletoe graced the church porches of England and of France, and no blood lingered on its berries.
How foolish and inopportune that mistletoe looked now.
The mistletoe hung under the tester just as he had placed it.
JAMES LANE ALLEN'S The Bride of the Mistletoe To which The Doctor's Christmas Eve is a sequel, was described at the time of its publication as "so exquisite that not a few of his admirers will hold it the best work he has accomplished.
Then the ice cream was served and of course it was in shapes of Christmas trees, and Santa Clauses, and sprigs of holly, and Christmas bells, and Patty's portion was a lovely spray of mistletoe bough.
I'm not pining for a rustic swain to kiss me 'neath the mistletoe bough.
Suddenly he moved it, until the dish of mistletoe ice cream was directly over Patty's head.
As it happens, there are no prehistoric monuments near the wood to indicate that it was held in reverence, and no mistletoe grows in Devon, and in Somersetshire only on apple trees.
Atkyns Bray, talked much tall nonsense about Wistman's Wood as a sacred grove, dedicated to the rites of Druidism, and of the collection of mistletoe from the boughs of the oaks.
Indeed, the mistletoe will not grow higher than five or six hundred feet above the sea, and Wistman's Wood is not much less than a thousand feet above the sea-level.
The children were then asked to guess the number of berries on a large piece of mistletoe which hung from one of the chandeliers.
We allowed bunches of mistletoe tucked cunningly under gas fixtures.
One effect of the common mistletoe is the formation of large swellings or tumors.
The western mistletoe is most common on the branches, where it produces "witches' broom.
McLean drew his wife under the mistletoe and kissed her.
A kiss under the mistletoe has never yet been offered as an insult, and the forward miss is not the one to get the kiss.
We must get the mistletoe hung; and the ham is to be part of the party, I fancy.
I have some mistletoe that my brother sent her from Kentucky, and Miss Kean and I were going to ask her to let us hang it for her.
The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, And the holly branch shone on the old oak wall; And all within were blithe and gay, Keeping their Christmas holiday.
Miss Green stopped Alice just in time, as she had begun with rapid tugs to pull the mistletoe from the branch that Kent had sawed off with such care, and to stick it in vases among the holly, where it did not show to any advantage.
According to this writer the Druids held the mistletoe in the highest veneration.
When thus found, the mistletoe was cut with a golden knife by a priest clad in a white robe, two white bulls being sacrificed on the spot.
The clock is striking nine, my hour for fleeing to get ready for bed, but none of the angels have come home from the Mistletoe Bough, and so I suppose I shall have to make haste slowly in undressing.
George is out of town, and all the rest, including the servants, have gone to see the Mistletoe Bough.
The gods, however, restored him to life, and dedicated the mistletoe to his mother, who is regarded as the counterpart of the classical Venus.
It is to this sentiment we owe the practice of kissing under the bush formed of holly and mistletoe during Christmas festivities.
The mistletoe was believed to grow from none of these elements.
His mother Frigga entreated all creatures to spare the well-beloved, but she overlooked the weakmistletoe bough.
The medicinal qualities of the mistletoe tree were also in high repute.
The mistletoe was supposed to protect the homestead from fire and other disaster, and, like other mysterious things, was believed to be potent in matters relating to courtship and matrimony.
This matrimonial element in the mistletoe is artistically presented in the Scandinavian mythology.
It is not improbable that the far-famed dart of Cupid may have some relation to the mistletoe arrow, to which the beautiful Baldr succumbed.
Gertie is coming home through the snow just as I did," said Amy, fastening a spray of mistletoe that a friend had sent her from England to the chandelier; "and the same old warm welcome awaits her.
Was not my kiss under the mistletoe a better way of awakening my sleeping beauty than a stab of jealousy?
Was it a subtile, mysterious power in the mistletoe itself with which it had been endowed by ages of superstition?
Small lads run hither and thither crying shrilly, "Pennorths of Christmas," and exhibiting evergreen, holly and mistletoefor sale.
The squire was just chuckling over a young lady's mishap in getting under the mistletoe when the herald of the St. George company, tired of raising the great knocker, pushed open the door and entered the hall.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mistletoe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
