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Meanings of holy eve in English

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Usage of holy eve in English
1
The day of the holy eve rose clear and bright.
What's Mine's Mine — Volume 1
2
No, that is a holy eve, and I must keep it with scourge and prayer.
Devereux — Volume 06
3
This year Eanfleda, the daughter of King Edwin, was baptized, on the holy eve of Pentecost.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
4
Christmas in the East-Side tenements begins with the sunset on the " holy eve," except where the name is as a threat or a taunt.
Nibsy's Christmas
5
The " Holy Eve" was the greatest of the year.
The Making of an American
6
This is the Holy Eve, and all the army will watch till midnight, when the first masses begin.
Via Crucis: A Romance of the Second Crusade
7
"It is because you have slept in a manger on a Holy Eve."
The Truce of God
8
Clotilde eyed the manger wistfully, but the Holy Eve was past, and the day of miracles would not come for a year.
The Truce of God
9
"It fell upon a holy eve,"
Halleck's New English Literature
10
"Will my royal nephew tell us how his master of the horse was employed upon that holy eve?" said the Duke of Albany.
The Fair Maid of Perth; Or, St. Valentine's Day
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