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Updated: June 7, 2025
It is celebrated by racing with long narrow boats shaped to represent dragons and propelled by scores of rowers, pasting of charms on the doors of dwellings, and eating a special kind of rice-cake, with a liquor as a beverage. The fifteenth day of the eighth moon is the Mid-autumn Festival, known by foreigners as All Souls' Day.
They constructed rude dwellings, and prepared to spend the winter at this place. It was about mid-autumn, and, finding wild grapes, they called the country Vinland.
The fact is that Yue-ts'un, ever since the day on which he had seen the girl of the Chen family turn twice round to glance at him, flattered himself that she was friendly disposed towards him, and incessantly fostered fond thoughts of her in his heart. And on this day, which happened to be the mid-autumn feast, he could not, as he gazed at the moon, refrain from cherishing her remembrance.
"But it doesn't look like it!" smiled Miss Heth, and glanced about at the emptiness of things. "You'd ought to of seen her afore the hot spell," replied Mr. Wedge, with artificial hilarity.... Then the light air took the little sail and Carlisle slid away with the sunshine on her hair. For half a week the breath of summer had confounded October, mid-autumn plucking a leaf from July's best book.
Yu, "contracted this illness verily in a strange manner! Last moon at the time of the mid-autumn festival, she was still well enough to be able to enjoy herself, during half the night, in company with our dowager lady and madame Wang.
And though London in mid-autumn had emptied itself Tennyson happened for a few days to be in town. His delightful frankness and simplicity charmed his hostess. "Think of his stopping in Maud," she goes on, "every now and then 'There's a wonderful touch! That's very tender!
The tall trees swaying their naked boughs on the chill night air of mid-autumn, only gave out a responsive sigh to the new longing within his breast, and the crisp rustling of the withered leaves only chimed in harmoniously with the echo of the love lay that was lingering on the chords of his heart; and where the moon in her silent loveliness cast shadows here and there on his way, he saw a vision of the loveliest face that ever haunted a mortal; and wherever quietude reigned profound, he heard the echo of the grave sweet voice saying: "Must I stand alone in life's busy crowd, A living heart in a death-like shroud?"
The mid-autumn in the valleys of the Columbia and Missouri Rivers is serene, and yet kindles, with a sort of fiery splendor. The perfect days of America are here. Master Mann and Benjamin started on their expedition with a few Indians, who were to see them to the Jefferson River and there leave them.
"Well, I live right here." He turned in at the apartment house on Forty-ninth Street, and a few minutes later they were in a large new room with an open fireplace and four walls lined with books. A colored butler served them gin rickeys, and an hour vanished politely with the mellow shortening of their drinks and the glow of a light mid-autumn fire.
That done, we fired the rows, filling the deep of heaven with smoke, as it seemed to me, and lighting the night with great billows of flame. By mid-autumn we had cleared to the stumps a strip half down the valley from our door. Then we turned to on the land of our neighbors, my time counting half, for I was sturdy and could swing the axe to a line, and felt a joy in seeing the chips fly.
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