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Sentences ending with festival

But you, Olympius, you who are the very soul of the revulsion we hope for, you must not be present at the festival. [10]
On reaching Memphis with the wreck of his army, he found the Egyptians in glorious apparel celebrating a festival. [10]
He had talked with the Lady Thyone, and told Hermon from her that she would visit or send for him the next day, after the festival. [10]
And the jealousy which, fool that she was, she had desired to arouse in her lover, what abundant nourishment it would derive from the events which had occurred on her return from the festival! [10]
Thus the slopes were spread as with priceless carpets for a festival. [9]
Ah, but this was to be an occasion, a festival! [9]
To-day Kaid goes to the Mosque of Mahmoud, as is the custom at this festival. [11]
They know over there all that took place at the festival. [10]
The Regent at the same time, with every appearance of regret, advised her to avoid an open quarrel, and not to defy Ameni's lofty severity, but to remain absent from the festival. [10]
And he expressed the pleasure that it gave him to be able to show her for the first time the wonderful night scene of such a festival. [10]

Short sentences using festival

The festival was commencing. [10]
A festival followed. [5]

More example sentences with the word festival in them

May I offer you a place in my boat, or do you propose remaining here to assist at the festival and not starting till to-morrow morning? [10]
For to-day we will close the temple gates, solemnize the festival among ourselves, and allow no one to enter our precincts for sacrifice and prayer till the fate of the sisters is made certain. [10]
Those lean Egyptians, who pushed past in silence and haranging their heads, were no doubt bent on carrying offerings to Osiris and Anubis--for the festival of the gods of death and resurrection coincided with the Nekysia--and on winning their favors by magical formulas and spells. [10]
The priest Pentaur, who is now present, has been appointed speaker at the festival to-morrow. [10]
This festival, on which we should like to linger, but cannot, took place at the new Dwyer residence. [9]
I was present when my honorable and reverend patron, the Lord Bishop of London, Doctor King, entertained her with festival state and pomp beyond what I had seen in his great hospitality offered to other ladies. [4]
But probably they were rather private citizens on their way to some festival celebrating the victory; for every one now believed in a great battle and a successful issue of the war. [10]
The October Fest was instituted for the people by the old Ludwig I. on the occasion of his marriage; and it has ever since retained its position as the great festival of the Bavarian people, and particularly of the peasants. [4]
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]
Our pen fails us in a description of that festival of festivals, the Banbury one, which took place early in September. [9]
He had hired two venial wretches to set fire to the prison while the festival was proceeding, with a view to suffocating Orion in his cell; but the gang were detected and all the prisoners were released in time. [10]
She was inclined, too, to appear as a young mother at the festival, and I assure you that she looked fairly regal in the magnificent attire. [10]
The matron responded to their hearty greetings with a word of thanks, and added, bitterly: "You see before you a mourning mother whom a ruthless tyrant compels to go to a festival thus--thus--only look at me--bedizened like a peacock! [10]
But to return to the festival of Archias: the oyster ragout served there, the pheasant pasties--" Here he interrupted himself, exclaiming in surprise: "By the club of Hercules, the Proserpina is to be received with a full chorus! [10]
If she desired to place him under the deepest obligations, she would join them there and adorn the festival with her singing. [10]
The hosts were to march after the festival of the New Year, which Cambyses celebrated this time with immense expense and profusion. [10]
This was intended to give her a holiday appearance, but the expression of her faithful eyes and the smile upon her sunken mouth showed her darling that his return was a festival to her. [10]
Is anybody beginning to feel it a burden, this sweet festival of charity and good-will, and to look forward to it with apprehension? [4]
Adrian, we are to celebrate a beautiful festival to-day, the anniversary of our marriage. [10]
Ameni enquired of them as to the preparations for the festival of the morrow, and then desired the chief haruspex to call the refractory pupils together in the school-court. [10]
I cannot forget the poet who spoke at the festival to-day, young Pentaur. [10]
Perhaps it was the last, but I remember no festival more brilliant. [10]
By the time the king had reached the palace, the multitude who had come to take part in the festival had formed themselves into a procession of interminable length, which wandered on through the straight streets of Babylon towards the royal palace. [10]
After this festival, the king again resigned the riding-school to the artists, who instantly set to work. [10]
The master of the house was to be surprised with a song on the morning of his birthday festival. [10]
Valentin had seen the Hiltners' two men-servants with the litters under the lindens, and Barbara thought that perhaps the maids might have gone to the scene of the festival to carry headkerchiefs and cloaks to the ladies before the outbreak of the storm. [10]
The shrubs in the garden where she had flung herself into his arms, her blissful walk in the moonlight, and all the crowd assembled for the festival, and finally how, possessed by the god, they had together joined the procession, and danced through the streets. [10]
He must fill the function of Cherheb [Cherheb was the title of the speaker or reciter at a festival. [10]
Study recommenced on the first of October, and during the leisure days before that time the village church festival was celebrated under the village linden, with plenty of cakes, and a dance of the peasants, in which we older ones took part. [10]
As soon as the darkness of this moonless night passed away, the high festival of the spring equinox and the harvest celebration would begin. [10]
His home and the city had held high festival on his return, as at some gift of Fortune, in which she too had a goodly share. [10]
On the twenty-fifth the city had decided to give a May festival under the lindens in honour of the duke. [10]
She had ordered that wine should be distributed to them in the great hall, as freely as at the great festival of Dionysus. [10]
Barbara then acknowledged that she was fond of such magnificent exhibitions, and begged Charles to allow her to attend the festival with the marquise. [10]
But Cassian, confident that his master's indignation would soon change to approval and praise, rapidly began to relate what had occurred outside the little castle at Prebrunn when the festival under the lindens was over. [10]
Oropastes is afraid, that he may chance to see you, and told him to return to Rhage directly the festival was over. [10]
When they heard that a great festival was being celebrated in your honor, they urgently besought to be admitted into your presence, that they might declare the message entrusted to them by their country. [10]
Opposite to the tent stands were erected for the Council, the patrician families, and the other ladies and gentlemen whom the city had invited to the festival. [10]
The proud and surly old man would have to submit to this penance without cavil, by reason that Pernhart had, since Saint Walpurgis' day, been a member of the council, and he and his family had part and share in the patrician festival. [10]
While she was still recalling the display at the Adonis festival, the curtains began to close again. [10]
Near the linden-shaded square at the shooting house were posted the cannon and howitzers, which were to receive the distinguished guests with loud volleys and lend fresh animation to the festival. [10]
We prosecute everything so vigorously that we speedily either wear it out or wear ourselves out on it, whether it is a game, or a festival, or a holiday. [4]
To him also she owed the rare gift of song, which had been carefully cultivated and had already secured her the first position in the woman's chorus at the festival of the great goddesses of the city. [10]
Then what must she have been when adorned for the festival or the ball? [5]
At the banquet served on the night of the harvest festival, no table had lacked a roast lamb; during this hour of waiting the housewife offered her family what she could. [10]
During the festival seasons, Uncle Tom averred, they wore out the latch on the front gate. [9]
Meantime the young Saxon duke had approached Barbara, and expressed his admiration of the successful festival, but she scarcely heard what he said. [10]
It was on Saint Raphael's day, which had attracted his fellow-clerks to a festival in the country. [10]
There was great rejoicing among the Hebrews, who like those of their blood in the city of Rameses, had assembled in every house at a festive repast on the night of the new moon after the vernal equinox when the harvest festival usually began. [10]
The matter in question was a statue of Urania, which must be completed in eight days by the same method which Papias had introduced at the last festival of Adonis, and to the scale which he, Pontius, indicated, in the palace of Lochias itself. [10]
When, accompanied by Philippus, Hermon reached his house, it was so late that the artists' festival in honour of the sculptor Euphranor, who entered his seventieth year of life that day, must have already commenced. [10]
The ladies had passed the stormy night, which had succeeded the exciting evening of the festival, without sleep. [10]
One of a pair of fleet bloodhounds which were ever leashed together was named Nich, and the other Syn, in memory that he had been betrothed on the festival of Saint Nicodemus and wedded on Saint Synesius' day. [10]
Do we not owe the Memphites the treat of a splendid marriage festival? [10]
The festival was over; yet did Ursula and the Junker walk together. [10]
We must talk over a few things, Porphyrius; and you, Gorgo, do not forget the solemn festival of Isis. [10]
She had only once had the happiness of being noticed by the Queen--just after her song at the Adonis festival. [10]
Here sacrifices were offered on the altars of Serapis, Isis, and Anubis; here the sacred sistrum of Isis might be kissed; here hundreds of priests performed solemn ceremonies, and half of those who came hither for the festival of the dead collected about them. [10]
The great miracle of the wonderful heart had left but a short time for the preparations for the festival. [10]
Besides, the execution of the singer at the last Adonis festival might have a dangerous effect upon the people of Alexandria. [10]
During the tumult of the Dionysiac festival you are reported to have carried on as grave a discussion as any two gray-bearded philosophers walking in the Stoa among attentive students. [10]
Since that night of St. Jean Baptiste's festival, no word of the past, of the time when Charley turned aside the revanche of justice from a man called Joseph Nadeau, had been spoken between them. [11]
On the 25th of January, 1859, Emerson attended the Burns Festival, held at the Parker House in Boston, on the Centennial Anniversary of the poet's birth. [6]
The wild throbbing of her heart impeded her breathing, and, in the indignation of her soul, she longed to escape fresh humiliation and to leave the festival. [10]
Only I did not want to worry you on the day of the festival of the dead. [10]
But Keraunus was not in the humor to accept caresses; he pushed her aside with an angry: "Leave me alone," and then went on: "If Hadrian were to ask me 'Where are your daughters on the occasion of the festival? [10]
There is really no objection to this--the terror of the surplus is a sort of nightmare in the country--except that it destroys the simplicity of the festival, and belittles small offerings that have their chief value in affection. [4]
This time the news of victory could be trusted, for the palace at Lochias was illuminated for a festival and when Dion landed there was a great bustle on the quay. [10]
In Alexandria the news of the nomination of the "sham Eros" to be the Emperor's successor was hailed with joy, and the citizens availed themselves gladly of his fresh and favorable opportunity to hold one festival after another. [10]
We were, unfortunately, never allowed to attend the celebrated fishing festival at Stralau. [10]
But a vast multitude stopped his progress, for a fearful horde of released prisoners with Orion at their head had come rushing down to the scene of the festival yelling: "Fire! [10]
These Indians are most of them good Catholics, and they try to go once a year to mass and a sort of religious festival held at St. Peter's, where their sins are forgiven in a yearly lump. [4]
Proud and yet modest he advanced to the Empress; bowed on one knee before her seat, and begged for the favor of a waltz with the Queen of the festival. [5]
Why, here is material, thought King, for a troupe of bacchantes, lighthearted leaders of a summer festival. [4]
I wonder how many strawberries it would need for a festival and whether they would cost more than the nets. [4]
As the shipwrecked man on a plank amid the endless surges longs for land, Barbara longed to get away, far away from the noise of the festival. [10]
She carried a little basket in which lay the gold ornaments she had worn at the festival, and which she had to restore to the keeper of the temple-treasure. [10]
She would have liked to tear it off and replace it by another, but her one modest festival robe had been left behind at the house of the lady Berenike. [10]
On this day it was the king's intention to make an especial display of the wealth and splendor of his court, at a festival arranged in honor of his daughter's betrothal. [10]
Before the week is out, everybody will be tired to death of sugary forms of nourishment and long to see the last of the remnants of the festival. [6]
A strawberry festival is about as far as the dissipation of our social gatherings ventures. [6]
The boats almost invariably reached their destination sooner than the land-travellers, and when they at last arrived, there was always a grand festival to welcome them, in which however Sabina but rarely took part. [10]
Then Aaron stepped into our midst, stood upon the auctioneer's bench, and told us with his own lips all that we had heard from my master Nun at the festival. [10]
Before he got into his chariot he commanded the guard to return to their posts, and took it upon himself to inform the Regent that his guest would remain in his tent till the festival was over; the soldiers unhesitatingly obeyed him. [10]
There were some incidents of that festival which I may have forgotten, for the consul said afterwards that I was with his Royal Highness about an hour and a half. [11]
Since the meeting in the restaurant the day before, which had resulted in Hugh's happy inspiration that the festival begun should be continued indefinitely at Highlawns, a kind of freemasonry had sprung up between the four. [9]
The Egyptian garrison in the fortified store-house had not failed to notice that the Hebrews were under some special excitement, but they supposed it due to the harvest festival. [10]
This festival lives in my memory like the fresh spring morning of a day whose noon is darkened by clouds, and which ends in a heavy thunderstorm. [10]
And I believe I know this other--I mean the woman whose singing enthralled my heart too at the Adonis festival just before our departure. [10]
The dew still hung on the grass, and above in the oaks and beeches, it seemed as if all the birds were holding high festival, there was such a fluttering, and calling, and chirping, and trilling, and singing, while the woodpecker beat time. [10]
It seemed to Honora, so fanciful this day, that its unwonted air of festival was unnatural. [9]
Dame Doris noticed his indecision and cried: "Yes, go; the festival is for pleasure, besides, the architect can perhaps advise you on many points, and recommend you to his friends. [10]
Nature had celebrated her festival of resurrection at Easter, and the day after the morrow joyous Whitsuntide would begin. [10]
The Emperor had held aloof from this game, in which he had formerly joined gladly and with much skill, but, on the other hand, he had promised to appear at the festival under the lindens, which was to last until night. [10]
Like the Deity, he was to govern invisibly, and his occasional appearance before the nation to be looked upon as a festival and occasion of rejoicing. [10]
In August, however, he was able to send three: one from Aix about the baths there, another from Bayreuth concerning the Wagner festival, and a third from Marienbad, in Bohemia, where they rested for a time. [5]
Then, taking courage, he said, laughing: "The Emperor will often pass by here, mother; give up celebrating your Dionysiac festival. [10]
From a third he ordered a large new mixing vessel of chased silver for the society of Ephebi, whose members had lauded him, at the magnificent festival given in his honour, with genuine youthful fervour. [10]
But she might have appeared in her present garb at the festival of Isis. [10]
As had often happened in days long past, he again saw his mother crown him for a festival. [10]

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