Sentence examples for English christmas from inspiring English sources

Mr Willoughby tells me the author of the quintessential snowy English Christmas template, Charles Dickens, saw grey drab Christmases as an adult.

His stories "Old Christmas" and "Bracebridge Hall" included accounts of English Christmas, with its mistletoe, yule logs and festive holiday dinners, which helped popularize these traditions in the United States.

Traditional English Christmas carols include "We Wish You a Merry Christmas", "The First Noel" and "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen".

At Christmas time I'd go all out with what my (late) husband once called my "parody" of an English Christmas menu.

TARRYTOWN Tarrytown Music Hall "An Olde English Christmas," Herman's Hermits starring Peter Noone.

But we kids preferred English Christmas cake with white icing that cracked your teeth.

But this year, I'm adding something else to my faux-English Christmas repast: a great big bowl of wassail, a hot winter punch made with cider, ale, spices and an optional garnish of toast.

Those old English country Christmases are a thing of the past.

After the English teams had Christmas and the New Year to themselves, and filled every stormy night with matches made for global television consumption, this weekend changes the focus entirely.

According to Stephen Nissenbaum, a historian at the University of Massachusetts, Irving and his patrician cronies sensed an urgent need to invent socially binding "traditions," ostensibly rooted in English and Dutch Christmases, for the rapidly expanding but culturally threadbare commercial city and nation.

Since the English own a patent on Christmas nostalgia, his "Christmas Cheer" column this month takes up (unsurprisingly) mulled claret -- red Bordeaux.