Yule-log

MARCIANO: How many Yule-log fires are going on in Hawaii right now do you think?

CNN Transcript Dec 25, 2009 2009

Yule-log; the crimson of its close perished; I was left bent among the cool blue shades, over the pale and ashen gleams of its night.

Villette 2003

Croatians, and Dalmatians, a _badnyak_, or piece of wood answering to the northern Yule-log, is solemnly burnt on Christmas Eve.

Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson

Without this he could neither have basked in the warmth of the Yule-log nor satisfied the baby in {74} the night time.

Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King Alfred Kingston

Thus the custom is almost exactly parallel to that of the Yule-log, which in parts of Germany, France, England, Serbia, and other Slavonic lands was commonly of oak-wood.

Chapter 65. Balder and the Mistletoe 1922

Thus the custom is almost exactly parallel to that of the Yule-log, which in parts of Germany, France, England, Serbia, and other Slavonic lands was commonly of oak-wood.

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

All being agreed, the Yule-log was stirred up into a blaze, which was duly fed with the goose-feather and the robe of the Apsarasas.

Figures of Earth James Branch Cabell 1918

Yule-log in its many forms was originally lit only in view of the cold season.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

Eleanor and Roger found Sir Stephen seated alone by the flickering, purring Yule-log.

Masters of the Guild L. Lamprey 1910

A Yule-log was sawn and placed upon the dining-room fire, and a huge bough of mistletoe hung up in the hall.

A harum-scarum schoolgirl Angela Brazil 1907