holy dish

Example Sentences

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This is, said he, the holy dish wherein I ate the lamb on Sher-thursday.

From Song and Legend from the Middle Ages by MacClintock, Porter Lander

Then the bishop took up the shining vessel from the table, and came to Galahad; and the knight kneeled down and took of the food that was within the holy dish.

From King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls by Gilbert, Henry

This is, said he, the holy dish wherein I ate the lamb on Sher-Thursday.

From Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) by Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed

This is, said he, the holy dish wherein I ate the lamb on Sheer-Thursday.

From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

This is," said He, "the holy dish wherein I ate the lamb at the Last Supper.

From Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" by Cutler, U. Waldo