Shrove Tuesday

It was on Shrove-Tuesday, after dark, that their attention was roused by a strange, crackling noise.

Our custom of eating pancakes on Shrove-Tuesday, was probably borrowed from the Greek church.

Which, accordingly providing, prepared his company for that journey, entering it upon Shrove-Tuesday (3rd February).

Shrove-Tuesday, all cased in in hams, was astride of a roe whose many-branched antlers were loaded with partridges.

Shrove-Tuesday he fears as much as the bauds, and Lent is more damage to him than the butcher.