Quotes About Mayday

Do you know what it came from? said Luke. Mayday? It's French, he said. From m'aidez. Help me.

Flowerlike, I loved nothing. from Mayday on Holderness

You were not afraid, priest, to take our festivals—festivals of the Old Religion, older by far than your Christ. For what is Lammas but Beltane; and Christmas but Yule? and Roodmas is Mayday—the wickedest day in all the year. One might say, priest, that you keep our heathen festivals!

Paul shouted "Mayday!" over the radio. "Where did they come up with that word?" I asked Mother. "Easy to understand on a radio, I guess.