Use feast in a sentence
Sentences starting with feast
- Feast your eye on it! [5]
Sentences ending with feast
- The unschooled gentlemen with him roared with laughter at his sallies, and they came to the place of meeting as though to a summer feast. [11]
- Suddenly Dubarre rose, took the glasses from the shelf and placed them in the middle of the table--the death's head for the feast. [11]
- And mine eyes, too, had their feast. [9]
- Achmet is bidden to the feast. [11]
- The danger which threatened Apollodorus and his guests was indeed imminent, and it had been provoked solely by the indignation of the excited mob at seeing the wealthy Israelite's house unadorned for the feast. [10]
- Then, in turn, they took the drum, and sang their songs, and closed with a feast. [5]
- All the week they came, loaded with offerings, turkeys and venison and pork and bear meat--greatest delicacy of all--until the cool spring was filled for the feast. [9]
- The best of the wine to the last of the feast! [11]
- But people were probably all the better for scrimping themselves a little in order to make this a great feast. [4]
- One of the painters then proposed that they should hold a regular drinking-bout, and elect Papias, who was as well known as a good table orator as he was as an artist, to be the leader of the feast. [10]
Short sentences using feast
- A feast symbolical. [9]
More example sentences with the word feast in them
- The prince has wooed her, so to speak, on the highway, but if she now comes with me he can enter the palace of kings as suitor to a princess, and the marriage feast I will provide shall be a right royal one. [10]
- A pleasant dinner with the Dean, a stroll through the grounds of the episcopal palace, with that perpetual feast of the eyes which the cathedral offered us, made our residence delightful at the time, and keeps it so in remembrance. [6]
- It all ended with a feast at a long table made of sawhorses and boards covered with a white cloth, and when the cake was cut there was wild excitement as to who would get the ring and who the thimble. [9]
- If wounded, I will be your nurse; will never stir from your side if you are ill, and when I see you happy will retire, and feast my eyes from afar on your glory and happiness. [10]
- Keep your beauty, which is now to be degraded to feast the eyes of gaping Greeks, for the worthiest husband among our people. [10]
- One day there were great sports, for it was the feast of the Red Star. [11]
- Then the word went through the valley and the hills, that one evening he would play for all who came; and that day was "Toussaint," or the Feast of All Souls. [11]
- This is the way the common sort of people will talk:--'You have got your ticket to the feast of life, as much as any other man that ever lived. [6]
- This rare sovereign was too good to feast the eyes of the rabble. [10]
- But the picture was to be displayed to-day, as being the feast of the dead, in the hall of the embalmers. [10]
- The day following was the feast of St. John the Baptist. [11]
- Possibly in his visions he travels far away from the gross world and his regular washing, and feast on succulent rats and birds'-nests in Paradise. [5]
- As the Emperor's viceroy it behoved him to give his assent to all that was planned to feast his sovereign's eye and ear. [10]
- Spring is the very Saviour, as it were, of all the numberless folk, great and small, which grow green and blossom there, wherefore the forest holds festival for his birthday and cradle feast as is but fitting! [10]
- The feast lasted until early morning, but toward noon Hermon again appeared in his uncle's house, and met Daphne full of joyous confidence, as if he were completely transformed. [10]
- They spoke of trivial things that found no place in Austen's memory, and at times, upon one pretext or another, he fell behind a little that he might feast his eyes upon her. [9]
- The prefect's son, too, had been invited to the banquet of Seleukus; and when Caracalla heard from him and others of the splendor of the feast, he had begun to feel hungry. [10]
- It would look too much like anxiety to get in at a feast where no plate had been provided for him. [5]
- Nothing is wanting to thy feast, most lordly Ani, but a poet, who might sing the glorious deeds of our monarch to the sound of his lute, and yet--we have at hand the gifted Pentaur, the noblest disciple of the House of Seti. [10]
- Before I go to the feast I will take a hasty plunge in my bath, for I twitch in every limb, I feel as if I had got dirty in their company. [10]
- It didn't seem to me that I had any right to be having this feast and you not there. [5]
- Had I desired to feast my eyes on the castle in flames, it would, perhaps, now lie in ashes. [10]
- We have had to bow more than once already to the strength of which you boast--but now, at a merry feast, we will not think of that, but rather continue the conversation which entertained us, and which had begun so well. [10]
- Ameni is ready to act, Paaker is to-day collecting his troops, to-morrow he will assist at the feast of the Valley, and the next day he goes to Syria. [10]
- From time to time I dipped into old Sir Thomas Malory's enchanting book, and fed at its rich feast of prodigies and adventures, breathed in the fragrance of its obsolete names, and dreamed again. [5]
- After the feast there was a refreshing season of rest and chat in the shade of spreading oaks. [5]
- The dishes were then sent to the servants, and the remains of the feast went to the poor, who lay waiting at the gates in great numbers. [4]
- It is on the way to the Serapeum, and just now at the feast you were talking with him incessantly. [10]
- One day as the sun went down, they came to the cave in the Mount of Pion, and they said, each to his fellow, Let us sleep here, and go and feast and make merry with our friends when the morning cometh. [5]
- They dropped down the river to a place called Mulberry Shade, where the King killed a deer and prepared for them another feast, at which they had rolls and cakes made of wheat. [4]
- Miss Eveleth requests the pleasure of Mr. Lindsay's company to meet a few friends on the evening of the Feast of St. Ambrose, December 7th, Wednesday. [6]
- The singer of the Ialemos at the feast of Adonis particularly praised us for it. [10]
- Two days before the feast of St. John the Baptist, the two made a special tour through the parish for certain recruits. [11]
- It was at the feast of Dionysus. [10]
- This evening, when the feast and the press of work are over, I will hear how you play. [10]
- As soon as the deputation is dismissed and I have received a few other persons, the feast is to begin. [10]
- Merriment, forgetfulness, music, the dance; the cup of pleasure and the feast of Babylon--these might more readily have been vouchsafed; even deemed to have been bargained for. [9]
- I never saw the congregation more devout, than when the beautiful and deeply-felt song of praise was sung at the feast of the stairs. [10]
- The "rich Egyptian," the "New Antinous," "handsome Orion," as he was called, could never be spared from feast or entertainment. [10]
- They did not tell her the day or the place, but said she would be taken prisoner and that it would be before the feast of St. John. [5]
- Toward midnight, when supper was announced, the crowd thronged to the supper room where a long table was decked out with what seemed a rare repast, but which consisted of things better calculated to feast the eye than the appetite. [5]
- The feast was spread out in the long grass under the trees--sides of venison, bear meat, corn-pone fresh baked by Mrs. McChesney and Polly Ann herself, and all the vegetables in the patch. [9]
- Have I not spoken thus since the Feast of Beiram, now two years gone? [11]
- You mean the speaker at the Feast of the Valley," and then although she had been told several times that Paaker had been killed, she asked again if her son was alive. [10]
- My mother would sooner have entered a pesthouse than the banqueting-hall where they feast, on Olympus. [10]
- The merry feast soon became a wild orgy; loud cries of Evoe, and tumultuous singing reached the ears of the Magians, who had once more settled down to calculations and discussions over their rolls and tablets. [10]
- Yet it was something that he could feast his eyes on her and was rewarded by a look now and then that told him she was conscious of his presence. [4]
- Many of the sharers in this feast wore long, snowwhite garments, and were of the class of the Initiated into the mysteries of the faith, as well as chiefs of the different orders of priests of the House of Seti. [10]
- Next day, being Saint Clara's day, there would be a great feast at the Tetzels' house by reason that it was the name-day of Dame Clara, Ursula's grandmother, and the eldest of their kin. [10]
- Manitou condemned the sacrilegiousness of the Protestants, whose meeting-houses were used for "socials," "tea-meetings," "strawberry festivals," and entertainments of many kinds; while comic songs were sung at the table where the solemn Love Feast was held at the quarterly meetings. [11]
- The feast of reason that we are impatiently awaiting is deferred. [9]
- Denisov celebrated his promotion to the rank of major, and Rostov, who had already drunk enough, at the end of the feast proposed the Emperor's health. [2]
- So when some professional friends of his called him up, one day, after a feast of reason and a regular "freshet" of soul which had lasted two or three hours, he read them these verses. [6]
- These bells reminded Pierre that it was Sunday and the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin. [2]
- The immortals again permit me, as in former days, to feast my eyes upon your marvellous beauty. [10]
- Or, was it perhaps only that in Corinth or in Athens at break of day, as he staggered home drunk from some feast, he had looked more at the earth than at the heavens? [10]
- Make yourself easy; Pentaur will not escape punishment; but for to-day we must recall him to this temple, for we have need of him to-morrow for the solemnity of the feast of the valley. [10]
- Not a day passed without affording some special feast for the eyes. [10]
- Let us feast our eyes now on the marvellous beauty before us. [10]
- He, if any one, was in the habit of being moderate in all things, if only as a good example to his sons; and he had proved in many a Dionysiac feast that the god could not easily overpower him. [10]
- One may feast on a fish and a handful of olives. [4]
- From the look of this lightsome feast, I conclude that what you need is a tonic. [5]
- At the feast of the valley we shall stand in competition with the brethren from Thebes. [10]
- In the intervals of the music there was silence, as if the great throng were too deeply enjoying this feast of the senses to speak. [4]
- The main feature of the feast was a piping hot Irish stew made of the potatoes and meat left over from a procession of previous meals. [5]
- There was abundance of cold water to finish the feast with. [5]
- Pontius was fond of animals and had made friends with the old woman's pets, so, as he opened the prefect's letter, he said: "I invite the three little guests to the remains of our feast. [10]
- Froude gives a notion of the style of living in earlier times by citing the details of a feast given when George Neville, brother of Warwick the king-maker, was made archbishop of York. [4]
- The Queen was not to appear until after the feast, when the mixing jars were filled. [10]
- The breakfast was not an improvement upon the supper, but the Colonel talked it up and transformed it into an oriental feast. [5]
- Surely there was no bride in all Saxony so lovely and so beautiful, and when she refused flatly to have Frau Schimmel invited to the wedding feast, he excused her, thinking that her refusal was the result of her aristocratic surroundings and training. [10]
- Never a saint-day, never a feast, never a grand council when the wine, the rum, flow so free, and you shall eat till you choke. [11]
- The feast of Neith, called in Egyptian "the lamp-burning," was celebrated by a universal illumination, which began at the rising of the moon. [10]
- He had crept near, and had learned that the braves were expected back from the hunt that night, and that the feast was for their welcome. [11]
- The sun was near setting when at last the princess and her companions reached the spot where the feast was being held. [10]
- Vesta presided once more, and after the feast was over gently led them down the slopes until certain practical affairs began to take shape in the mind of the man. [9]
- His intelligence charmed me, held me, and, later, as we travelled up to Quebec, I found my journey one long feast of interest. [11]
- Do not ask me what it is; it would grieve you to know.--The day after tomorrow, when the feast of Isis is over. [10]
- At the old man's everything was as nice as it used to be in my own home at Philae: Supper a little work of art, a feast for the eye as well as the appetite! [10]
- He is in love--he was so gracious at the feast! [10]
- For the present let us think of to-morrow's feast, but the day after I will examine that nice couple, and will act with iron severity. [10]
- She comes home late from a feast, spends barely six hours in disturbed slumber, and has hardly rested so long as it takes a pebble to fall to the ground from a crane's claw before we have to dress her again for another meal. [10]
- What a delight it was to Hermon to feast his eyes upon these spectacles! [10]
- The immortals have indeed shown me very plainly that it is their will sometimes to spoil the feast of life with a right bitter draught. [10]
- The two alone in the light of the flickering fire; the many gone to feast on fish, the price of lives. [11]
- And then music in the big house, or perhaps a ride afield to greet the neighbours, and fiddling and dancing in the two big quarters, Hank's and Johnson's, when the tables were cleared after the bountiful feast Mr. Carvel was wont to give them. [9]
- The Greek colonists in Naukratis had prepared a feast to celebrate the departure of their protector's daughter. [10]
- The wine offered in libations to the gods already lay in broad pools upon the hard pavement of the hall, the music and singing were drowned in shouts the feast had become an orgy. [10]
- Well, Livy darling, I have been having a perfect feast of letters for an hour, and I thank you and dear Clam with all my heart. [5]
- Gervase Markham in his "English Housewife," after treating of the ordering of great feasts, gives directions for "a more humble feast of an ordinary proportion. [4]
- There I promised him a delicious, real Alexandrian feast, and you know how gladly Polybius will seize the opportunity to share it with him. [10]
- They were to have sworn allegiance to Ani at that very feast in the valley, and it is quite openly said that Ani is aiming at the throne, and intends to depose the king. [10]
- In storm you have been with us, so true a pilot and so brave a sailor; and if we come to port and the quiet shore, there shall be spread a feast of remembrance which shall never grow cold, Seigneur. [11]
- As I was handsome and sang well, a music master took me into his band, brought me to Thebes, and wherever there was a feast given in any great house, Beki was in request. [10]
- By sunset they had meant to finish this enterprise, which was to put the besieged wholly in their hands, and then to feast after the day's fasting. [11]
- The Regent Ani grants us a rich contribution, and--" "And," interrupted Septah, "our thaumaturgists understand things very differently from those of the house of Anion, who feast while we practise. [10]
- The Koh-i-noor had got enough, which in such cases is more than as good as a feast. [6]
- The second prophet, Gagabu, who was to-day charged with the conduct of the feast by Ameni--who on such occasions only showed himself for a few minutes--was a short, stout man with a bald and almost spherical head. [10]
- The jolly old Gagabu kept up his character as a stout drinker, and leader of the feast. [10]
- Death--death snatched her from me, and a few days later the sovereign whom you serve commanded us to prepare a feast for him. [10]
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