Example Sentences

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Long he lingered on the borders of the holy-land of death, One fair Sister, by his bedside, counting low each fluttering breath.

From Recitations for the Social Circle by Harvey, James Clarence

"How should I know your true love,5 That have met many a one, As I came from the holy-land, That have come, that have gone?"

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various

"As you came from the holy-land Of Walsingham, Met you not with my true love By the way as you came?"

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various