How To Use Martinmas In A Sentence
- Ill eneugh to keep the doors open as it is, let be facing Whitsunday and Martinmas — an auld leather pock there is, Maister Francie, in ane of worthy Maister Bindloose the sheriff-clerk’s pigeon-holes, in his dowcot of a closet in the burgh; and therein is baith charter and sasine, and special service to boot; and that will be chapter and verse, speer when ye list.” Saint Ronan's Well
- At Michaelmas he must pay ten pence tax, and at Martinmas twenty-three sesters of barley and two hens; at Easter one young sheep or twopence.
- ‘I took the pledge last Martinmas, and I havena touched a drop o’ whisky sinsyne. The Thirty-Nine Steps
- In Bradford, Yorkshire the eighteenth-century antiquary John Hartley recounted a Martinmas payment ritual associated with the slaying of a huge, ravenous wild boar and the rival claims of two hunters to having performed the feat.
- 'I took the pledge last Martinmas, and I havena touched a drop o' whisky sinsyne. The Adventure of the Literary Innkeeper
