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  • We sit around the fireplace, sing carols, and enjoy a supper of stewed lentils, pâté, boudin blanc (white pudding), a green salad, and a bûche de Noël (yule-log).

    Apricots on the Nile Colette Rossant 2004

  • Or, failing live flames, toward the TV playing your yule-log video.

    Home Swell Home Cynthia Rowley 2002

  • Or, failing live flames, toward the TV playing your yule-log video.

    Home Swell Home Cynthia Rowley 2002

  • Or, failing live flames, toward the TV playing your yule-log video.

    Home Swell Home Cynthia Rowley 2002

  • In the south the head of the family kindles the yule-log, or _bûche-de-Noël_, which is supposed to continue burning until the arrival of spring.

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

  • Of course you spent Christmas at the old home in England -- one of those yule-log and plum-pudding

    The Port of Missing Men Meredith Nicholson 1906

  • As the yule-log blazed upon the hearth, our ancestors set up huge stones and danced round them, thus worshipping the god of fertility.

    The God-Idea of the Ancients 1897

  • But there is a joy by the hearth when the yule-log is burning.

    Sister Teresa 1892

  • While the company sat round the yule-log blazing on the hearth, eating mince-pies, or plum porridge, and quaffing a bowl of well-spiced elder wine, the mummers would enter, decked out in ribands and strange dresses, execute their strange antics, and perform their curious play.

    Old English Sports 1892

  • The frozen grass was strewn with wrenched limbs, and here and there was an ash or a sugar-tree splintered and prostrate, but wily Uncle Ephraim was looking for a yule-log that would burn slowly and burn long; for as long as the log burned, just that long lasted the holiday of every darky on the place.

    Crittenden A Kentucky Story of Love and War John Fox 1891

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