Feasts
[fi:sts]
Examples
- The primitive custom of both Aryans and Mongols of holding great feasts in halls still held good, and there was much hard drinking. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Nor have I been debarred, Though seas between us braid ha' roared, (BURNS) from participating in the intellectual feasts he has spread before us. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- That is the time for trade and feasts and marriages. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The feasts there were of the grandest in London, but there was not overmuch content therewith, except among the guests who sat at my lord's table. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- They sat at his feasts, and he sat at theirs. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It drinks the dark blood of the inhabitant of the south, but it never feasts on the pale-faced Celt. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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