yules

In effect, I re-mumble, from the yules gone by, purr lil mur — rerof myhind, so she used indeed.

Finnegans Wake 2006

(The Nights, vol.viii. 148) that, as I was treating of proverbs familiar to the better educated order of citizens, his critique was not to the point; and this brought down upon me the following letter under the ægis of a portentous coronet and initials blazing with or, yules and azure.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

And if, at the end of it all, you find yourself pining for the more-perfect yules of yore, remember that nostalgia is not only a natural antidepressant, but that it doesn't depend on the memories being

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