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Meanings of mystery play in English

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Usage of mystery play in English
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Each had made his choice; one, the bonfire; another, the maypole; another, the mystery play.
Notre-Dame de Paris
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The program included lectures, workshops, a main ecumenical ritual, a mystery play, and lots of music.
Drawing Down the Moon
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All she had seen was a swarm of masked men running around performing some mystery play.
Songs of love and death: all-original tales of star-crossed love
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This crowd had been waiting since daybreak for three things: noonday, the embassy from Flanders, the mystery play.
Notre-Dame de Paris
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They tweaked his tail on carven misericords, and in the mystery play he was invariably cast for the clown.
Nonsenseorship
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March brings the Palululong, "Great Plumed Serpent," a masked and elaborately costumed mystery play given in the kiva.
The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi
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He must have wanted, I think, to give himself a representation of some sacramental act, of some mystery play of the middle ages.
The Lock and Key Library: the Most Interesting Stories of All Na...
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She saw it all in a mystery play long long ago-whena Hand came out, and put in the stars and sun and moon.'
The Herd Boy and His Hermit
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In England this coincided with the development of mystery plays and mumming.
The Guardian
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The ancient Coventry mystery plays could be seen most days in the cathedral.
The new yorker
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On the Continent, as at Oberammergau, Mystery plays are still enacted.
A History of Pantomime
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It is reasonable to suppose, however, that they were ' mystery plays' or 'moralities.'
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
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They show interesting likeness to the miracle and mystery plays of the Middle Ages.
Lighted to Lighten: the Hope of India / A Study of Conditions am...
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Solve a genetic mystery Play Sherlock Holmes and solve a series of genetic mysteries.
The Guardian
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I shall never see another spring Mystery Play.'
Sovereign
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Like the mystery plays here was religious expression that wasn't left to the priests to direct.
Radio NZ