Yule Sentence Examples

The Yule season is a time to decorate the inside and outside of homes.

On the 21 st of October General Sir George White and General (Sir John) French defeated at Elandslaagte a strong force of Boers, who threatened to cut off General Yule's retreat.

Yule's Cathay and the Way Thither, p. 173 seq., and in Marco Polo (2nd ed.), i.

But this action was disallowed by the British government as Yule's and Moresby's had been.

Shahr-i-nau, long after Sano had disappeared - Yule's Marco Polo, ii.

From 1875 to 1889 Yule was a member of the Council of India, being appointed K.C.S.I.

Yule (Book of Marco Polo) " Respecting the mariner's compass and gunpowder, I shall say nothing, as no one now, I believe, imagines Marco to have had anything to do with their introduction."

See, for the history of Sokotra, Yule, Marco Polo (1903 ed.) .ii.

The introduction of the danz, ballads (or fornkvicedi, as they are now called) for singing, with a burden, usually relating to a love-tale, which were immensely popular with the people and performed by whole companies at weddings, yule feasts and the like, had relegated the regular Icelandic poetry to more serious events or to the more cultivated of the chiefs.

Some, such as the Yule log and the Christmas tree, are relics of the old pagan midwinter festival.

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The Yule log, also known as the Buche de Noel, is a traditional cake served at the end of many Christmas feasts.

Yule logs are traditionally made from chocolate, rolled with a butter cream or whipped cream filling, then covered in a chocolate icing.

In other parts of Italy, the ceppo is not a tree of light at all, but a yule log.

The origins of some of these customs are ancient, others are modern, but they all add joy and warmth to the Yule season.

Whether it's a large department store or small boutique, the stores in Manhattan put on a grand show during the Yule season.

Many Yule traditions were incorporated into the Christian Christmas, such as the Yule log.

The French have several tasty traditional Christmas desserts, including the Buche de Noel, or Yule log.

Apprehension runs rampant and all of the while, in the midst of all the dangerous obstacles, there is always potions class and attending his first Yule Ball for Harry to think of.

Gardiens de la pair (sometimes called sergents de yule, gardes de yule or agents de police) are not to be confounded with the gendarmerie, being a branch of the administrative police and corresponding more or less nearly with the English equivalent police constables, which the gendarmerie do not, although both perform police duty.

The colony is administered by a governor, who exercises military power through a marine infantry colonel, and civil power with the assistance of a privy '- A similar usage exists in Malay; see paper by Yule in Jour.

The work in which he embodied his researches was immediately translated into all civilized languages, the English version, Mongolia, the Tangut Country, and the Solitudes of Northern Tibet (1876), being edited by Sir Henry Yule.

The year was broken by the spring feasts and moots, the great Althing meeting at midsummer, the marriage and arval gatherings after the summer, and the long yule feasts at midwinter.

The kiag was obliged to recall Necker, to mount the tricolor cockade at the Hotel de Yule, and to recognize Bailly as mayor of Paris and La Fayette as commander of the National Guard, which remained in.

In South France, Yule logs would be burned from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day.

The early Norsemen celebrated the midwinter festival of Yule.

Brigadier-General Yule then took command, and an overwhelming force of Boers rendering the further occupation of Dundee dangerous, he decided to retire his force to Ladysmith.

He again attacked the Boer forces at Rietfontein on the 24th of October, and on the 26th General Yule reached Ladysmith in safety.

Yule limestone 350 450 ft.

Besides the Protestant agencies already named, the Roman Catholic Order of the Sacred Heart has been working in the island since 1886; its centre is at Yule Island, and it works up the St Joseph's river.

Yule, from Chinese annals of the 7th and 8th centuries, says that Chinese ships came as far as Siraf (Tahiri) and the Euphrates, where they lay at Hira near Kufa, and adds that this trade fell off in A.D.

The view, often repeated, that the saccharum of the ancients is the hydrate of silica, sometimes found in bamboos and known in Arabian medicine as tabashir, is refuted by Yule, Anglo-Indian Glossary, p. 654; see also Not.

He was accompanied by Captain (afterwards Sir Henry) Yule as secretary, and Mr Oldham as geologist, and his mission added largely to our knowledge of the state of the country; but in its main object of obtaining a treaty it was unsuccessful.