The festive season

Usage examples of christmastide.

Like James in the old days, Soames found time to go there nearly every Sunday, and sit in the little drawing-room into which, with his undoubted taste, he had introduced a good deal of change and china not quite up to his own fastidious mark, and at least two rather doubtful Barbizon pictures, at Christmastides.

Out into another Christmastide, each for his own reason seeking the brightest Lights.

Gulta and Bjarni were indeed oblivious to it all, excited as children at Christmastide by the newness and the bustle.

After a Christmastide truce, with the rest of the winter waiting them, perhaps more of it than any can imagine themselves surviving without at least one serious lapse in behavior, the Surveyors decide to travel to Lancaster, perhaps in hopes that the imps of discord will fail to pursue them 'cross Susquehanna.

At Christmastide, the Tavern down the Road from Harlands' opens its doors, and soon ev'ryone has come inside.

James, long fond of telling spectral tales at Christmastide, has become by slow degrees a literary weird fictionist of the very first rank.