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mai-kuhl-mas-taid
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Michaelmas Day, 29 September, a feast day of Michael the Archangel and All Angels; the autumn season
1847Wuthering HeightsSummer drew to an end, and early autumn: it was past Michaelmas, but the harvest was late that year, and a few of our fields were still uncleared.1879Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other StoriesThe Grey Goose remembered it well, it was Michaelmastide, the Michaelmas before the Michaelmas before the Michaelmas—but ga, ga! What does the date matter? It was autumn, harvest-time, and everybody was so busy prophesying and praying about the crops, that the young couple wandered through the lanes, and got blackberries for Miss Jessamine's celebrated crab and blackberry jam, and made guys of themselves with bryony-wreaths, and not a soul troubled his head about them, except the children, and the Postman.1988The Confession of Brother HaluinShe's there at Hales, she paid her dues last Michaelmas.Labels: Ellis Peters, Emily Bronte, Juliana Horatio Ewing
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