What is "michaelmas"

Usage examples of "michaelmas".

Michaelmas, some barley and two hens at Martinmas, either a lamb or two pence at Easter, and a pig for the right to keep his herd in the forest, where they lived on the acorns and beechmast.

They still bear his name: the white Michaelmas daisy, aster tradescantii, and the spiderwort, Tradescantia Virginia.

It was the time of year for cutting, and clearing, and there were great patches of browning Michaelmas daisies, phlox and other perennials giving striking evidence of neglect.

There was a coterie of wardersa gloved private gatekeeper in a blue uniform with the sanatorium crest, plus a sturdy middle-aged plainclothesman in a sensible vested suit and a greatcoat and a velour hat, and a bright young fellow in a sportcoat and topper whom Michaelmas recognized as a minor UNAC press staff man.

It occurred to Michaelmas that Campion realized Limberg had moved as if to play directly to the Gately-types.

Michaelmas descended just behind Watson and Campion, into a batting of light reflected from every surface, into a cup of nose-searing cool washed brilliance whose horizon was white mountaintops higher than the clouds.

Michaelmas realized Campion was deliberately heading straight for him.

Michaelmas stepped sideward in relation to a group of press aides moving along beside Campion and Clementine.

It was all a tumble of shahmat boards down there: white north surfaces, all other sides energy-absorbent black, metallized glass lancing reflections back at catcher panels, louvers, shadow banners, clash of metal chimes, street cries, robed men like knights, limousine horns, foreigners moving diagonally, the bazaar smell newly settled into recently wet mortar but not quite yet victorious over aldehydes outbaking from the plastics, and Konstantinos Cikoumas, Michaelmas saw him as a tall, cadaverous, round-eyed, open-mouthed man in a six-hundred-dollar suit and a grocer's apron with a screwdriver in its bib pocket.

At length Michaelmas drew near, when I, to show, as it were, that no ill blood had been bred on my part, notwithstanding our bickerings, proposed in the council that Mr M'Lucre should be the new bailie.

Michaelmas made his way through them, working his way towards Customs and the cab rank, feeling a sudden burst of autumn chill as someone opened a door.

Why, I say you may do as you like about giving up any o' your corn-land afore your lease is up, which it won't be for a year come next Michaelmas, but I'll not consent to take more dairy work into my hands, either for love or money.

He noted ducks and chickens and what had been until lately an attractive herbaceous border and in which a few late Michaelmas daisies showed a last dying splash of purple beauty.

What the two drank together, between Hilary Term and Michaelmas, might have floated a king's ship.

You picked the flowers in the dark-by the way, you inadvertently included a Michaelmas daisy with your chrysanthemums-tied up your little poem to them and left them on the doorstep with-er-a horseshoe.