The loud whistles and horns of the little ones rose on the balmy air next morning. No one would doubt it was Christmas Day, even if doors and windows were open wide to let in cool air. Why, there was Christmas even in the very look of the mules on the poky cars; there was Christmas noise in the streets, and Christmas toys and Christmas odours, savoury ones that made the nose wrinkle approvingly, issuing from the kitchen. Michel and Madame Laurent smiled greetings across the street at each other, and the salutation from a passer-by recalled the many-progenied landlady to herself.英文原著 · 《The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories》
The night before Christmas Eve I heard a burst of musical voices so close that they might as well have been inside the house instead of just outside; so I asked them inside, hoping that they might then seem farther away. Then I realised that they were the Christmas Mummers, who come every year in country parts to enact the rather rigid fragments of the old Christmas play of St. George, the Turkish Knight, and the Very Venal Doctor. I will not describe it; it is indescribable; but I will describe my parallel sentiments as it passed.英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
``He went away with everything looking dark before him. It was Christmas-time, but the very fact of its being Christmas only added to his depression--Christmas was such an unnatural time for unhappiness! But in a few minutes he came flying back, radiant, overjoyed, sparkling with happiness, waving a slip of paper in his hand which was a check for precisely ten thousand dollars! For he had just drawn it out of an envelope handed to him, as he reached home, by the mail-carrier.英文原著 · 《Acres of Diamonds》
8; Psalm lxxxiv. 10, in which Christmas is called Anti- Christ's masse, and those Mass-mongers and Papists who observe it, etc. In consequence of which Parliament spent some time in consultation about the abolition of Christmas day, passed orders to that effect, and resolved to sit on the following day, which was commonly called Christmas day."英文原著 · 《Old Christmas》
Come, boys!'' I knew it must be close on to mid- night. Now they would play a Christmas carol. I used every Christmas to be roused up and carried here and set on dad's shoulder. When they were done ringing, Number Two always gave me a box of sugar-plums and a large red apple. As they rang off, my father would cry out, ``One, two,'' and so on, and then cry, ``Elias, all over town people are opening windows to listen.'' I seemed to hear him as I sat in the gloom. Then I heard, ``All ready; one, two,'' and they rang the Christmas carol. Overhead I heard the great bells ringing out:英文原著 · 《The Autobiography of a Quack》
Wilder. Wilder had some sense of Christmas promptness. He remembered poor Chappell perfectly, and mailed that night a thorough certificate. This certificate it was which Mr. Molyneux had carried to the poor old tenement of Massachusetts Avenue, and this had made happy that Christmas Day--and this. "Why," said Mr. Bruce Kuypers, almost as if he were speaking aloud, "it seems so queer that Christmas comes and goes with you, and you have forgotten all about that stormy day, and your ride to Mrs. Chappell's!英文原著 · 《The Brick Moon》
We looked at Christmas past, we looked at Christmas present; now for Christmas yet to come.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》
Well, since right now is the closest to the Christmas spirit we're probably gonna get, Santa wanted me to give you your Christmas present now.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
* Christmastime will soon be over, Christmastime will soon be over * Christmastime will soon be over, then we'll join the band电影 · 《Cold Mountain (2003)》