How To Use Banquet In A Sentence

And while they were in the midst of their banqueting, the door was suddenly burst open, and the Dagda stood there, with his men.
Having designed many elements in the hotel, from the bedside lamps to the banquette sofas, he has now set his sights on a much bigger challenge.
Marriage documents were signed, felicitations offered, they sat down to a great banquet, and the new bride lay in her husband's lap... Elizabeth Abbott: Is New York's Gay Marriage Truly Historic?
The tower was originally a summer banqueting house and allowed aristocratic ladies to watch their men hunting.
There was also a live concert of indigenous music and a lavish banquet.

His father now ceremoniously conducted Mrs. Penniman to what he spoke of as the banqueting hall. The Wrong Twin
At the annual holiday banquet, for instance, one employee each year wins the "Kraut" award -- a silver plate displayed at the front of the office -- along with a jar of sauerkraut. Top Small Workplaces 2007
The banquet hall was bright and cheerful, full of nobles and lords looking dignified and regal.
Slow Food is coming to Scotland this Thursday when a a Grand Scottish Banquet will be held at Edinburgh's Sheraton Grand Hotel.
The five-course banquet was the first in Mr Bush's presidency to demand a white tie dress code.
The impertinence of inviting us to such a mean banquet!
It is notoriously pungent, extremely powerful and a favourite at Chinese banquets. Times, Sunday Times
The first floor houses a reception room and a banquet hall.
These colonies soon boasted yacht clubs, fox hunts, formal dinners, and elaborate banquets.
After the banquets, the concerts the table tennis exhibitor, he went home tiredly.
It gives meaning to a sparrow's flight beyond the banqueting hall. Times, Sunday Times
Its turrets and towers, its windows and its walls, its capacious kitchens, and its fine halls and banqueting rooms -- unspoiled by the hands of the "restorer" -- have gained for it the almost unchallenged position of being the finest baronial residence which still exists. Heiress of Haddon
The tower was originally a summer banqueting house and allowed aristocratic ladies to watch their men hunting.
The King left the lavish room for the banquet hall, leaving Shyra and Gaiden to finish preparing.
The evening begins with champagne and includes a four-course banquet, unlimited drinks and entertainment from minstrels, jesters and fire-eaters.
The distinctive cultural trace of Brazil is anthropophagy -- from culture to technology, the legacy of a former, lazy European monarchy in a tropical country where the aborigines, after banqueting over the odd whitey, were merrily exterminated while Europeans and black slaves copulated freely, with no Catholic guilt involved (there's no sin below the Equator). Pepe Escobar: Is Brazil the New United States?
There was rich banqueting in his great hall when his harvest was ingathered, and Zeus and all the other gods feasted on the fat burnt-offerings, but no gift was set apart for the virgin child of Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
As announced in yesterday's T & A, the event will now take place at the club banqueting suite at 7.30 pm on July 22.
These include a beautiful main bar lounge, an exclusive VIP area and another room with banquettes and booths that are perfect for sitting at with your bottle service and schmoozing your date or chatting with your mates.
His interior pieces on display include medieval banquet tables, slender candlesticks and chandeliers, and mirrors.
In a fortnight, the Thomson family will host a grand banquet and evening ball.
With my rag, I scooped some rubbing compound and began polishing silverware for the banquet.
Else I should plunge _in medias res_ upon a sketch of De Quincey's life; were it not a rudeness amounting to downright profanity to omit the important ceremony of prelibation, and that at a banquet to which, implicitly, gods are invited. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863
Nicknamed the Stevies for the Greek word "crowned," the Stevie Awards will announce the winners during a gala banquet on Monday, Feb. 22 at the Eden Roc Renaissance Hotel in Miami Beach, Fla. PR.com Press Releases
She sat on the banquette with her feet up, notebook in her lap, and waited. A MEANS TO EVIL
Among the inexplicable fashions and inspired dancing, I stood alone next to a banquette, and in a quiet, shocking moment realized the fogged-up atrium was filled with people I loved. Welcome to My World
An awards banquet, the first ever specifically for blacks in the broadcast industry, was held at the Waldorf-Astoria.
The annual clan banquet will be in the Manor Hotel on Saturday night where the clan chieftain will be elected.
A tiger hunt was something Indian kings organised to honour their imperial guests, a colonial equivalent of a banquet.
The guests of the banquet sway extraneously from portrayals as parasites, wild, carnivorous beasts and ravenous dogs to spoilt brats at a kids' party to well mannered socialites.
And since this is a formal banquet, you will be wearing tuxedoes.
And so the population was gradually led into the demoralising temptations of arcades, baths, and sumptuous banquets. BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
We shall have a public banquet in your honor!
We had a banquet, which ended up with soup.
Completing the triad is the intimate Transit Lounge (141 Tai An Road; 86-21-6283-3051), a favorite among Japanese men who come for the swanky red banquettes, loungey vibe and mojitos. Sunday Reading
They banqueted in the hall where in medieval times the Teutonic Knights had feasted. Emancipation
Consider incorporating a storage facility within your kitchen seating - banquettes, for example, can lift up to reveal a cavernous space underneath; hinge small sections for ease of access.
According to these reports, the royal family gathered for an evening meal in the banquet hall of the palace.
We decided on a blueprint, which included a March date for a banquet where we would sell ceramic bowls, made by students, filled with soup, also made by students.
There is a conference a banqueting suite for 180 people, served by a restaurant which also offers a Sunday carvery for members.
The Lieutenant Governor and Mrs. Mackay were piped from the banquet hall to the Toronto Room where they received the guests. Dinner In Honour of The Honourable J. Keiller Mackay
The dragon, gliding across its vast emptiness, was a mere gilded fly in a banqueting hall.
They were served a banquet of knowledge; we had basic rations. Times, Sunday Times
He had painted the ceiling for the Whitehall Banqueting House, where masques had been performed and through which, in a pointed gesture, Charles I was made to pass on the way to his execution.
Too often we are so distracted by the myriad restaurants and products available to us - and the gustatory experience they promise - that we don't notice the real Chef behind the banquet.
From that journey he never returned alive, being attacked with a fatal fluxion of the lungs at a great public banquet given in his honor by Count Florida Blanca. Calvert of Strathore
Which banquet being ended, the Spaniardes in recompence of our courtesie, caused a great heard of white buls, and kyne to be brought together from the mountaines, and appoynted for euery Gentleman and The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II.
There were various celebrations honoring the gods, often accompanied by lavish banquets.
The distinctive cultural trace of Brazil is anthropophagy -- from culture to technology, the legacy of a former, lazy European monarchy in a tropical country where the aborigines, after banqueting over the odd whitey, were merrily exterminated while Europeans and black slaves copulated freely, with no Catholic guilt involved (there's no sin below the Equator). Pepe Escobar: Is Brazil the New United States?
And so the population was gradually led into the demoralising temptations of arcades, baths, and sumptuous banquets. BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
Radiant Ashley Olsen lounged calmly on a couch, Foxy Brown spilled out of her bandeau top, SNL's Kenan Thompson took up a banquette, and Naomi Campbell drifted across the dance floor.
A delirious convention was taking place, a deranged banquet of the fathoms. RUSHING TO PARADISE
A lot of energy went into the organization of this banquet
McGovern declared: ‘I would trade all the beefsteaks and roast chickens in the world in order to banquet off one once more.’
He used the image of a guest at a banquet who chooses the lowest place in order to be seen being elevated to a higher one.
He appears in the cartulary of the Holy Trinity, Aldgate, as an alderman in 1249 and 1250, was associated with the parish of St John, Walbrook and had an estate in Bishopsgate.3 But little is known of his origins; indeed, his mysterious background evokes Bedes comparison of the passage of a mans life with the flight of a single sparrow through a chieftains banqueting hall. Bedlam
But there is something easeful and secure about this uncluttered room with its warm umber banquettes.
In 1576 actor James Burbage built London's first public theater, known simply as The Theatre, which was an open-air structure that combined features of pageant wagons, fixed stages, and banquet halls.
He built palaces and banqueting halls on the hill and held meetings of the other provincial kings every three years at which time they made laws and held festivals of music and sport.
A magnificent pile of cushions at the head of the banquet seemed prepared for the master of the feast, and such dignitaries as he might call to share that place of distinction; while from the roof of the tent in all quarters, but over this seat of eminence in particular, waved many a banner and pennon, the trophies of battles won and kingdoms overthrown. The Talisman
Lounge on inviting velvet banquettes, leather easy chairs or oversized ottomans and sip their divine cocktails.
They come together in another way as well: the Nebula Awards banquet is the last weekend in April, just a couple days before the release of the book. March 2nd, 2009
After sumptuous banquet, they also took us to a dance hall to dance and sing.
The annual meeting concluded with a banquet on Saturday evening.
His piety and wisdom were proverbial among his countrymen at an early period; probably owing to that noble proof he gave of faithfulness, combined with wisdom, in abstaining from the food sent to him from the king's table, as being polluted by the idolatries usual at heathen banquets (Da 1: 8-16). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
They banqueted her royally when she became the director of the company.
On the Friday evening, a fancy-dress banquet was held for the high ranking guests who had attended the Tournament.
As well as staging concerts and cabaret the venue could also play host to conferences and banquets.
A strange banquet, but the word strange had such little meaning now. Soulless
The banquet was permeated with an atmosphere of friendship.
I was trotted out at these wretched award banquets like the March of Dimes child.
Rather than refer to her speech at the previous day's banquet, whether to endorse or disavow such colorful phrases as "the Pentagon, a pentacle crowded with the demons of nuclear madness," or "the CIA-the Children Immolation Agency," he made an unspeech of it and simply called her a modern Joan of Arc. That St. Joan took arms in the cause of liberation became an unfact. The Boat of a Million Years
A banquet of tiger prawn and lemon quinoa risotto. Times, Sunday Times
For not to enumerate all the sacred rites severally and all the gods, whether in the banquet of Jupiter can the lectisternium be performed in any other place, save in the Capitol? The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08
The hotel amenities include health clubs, conference facilities, and banquet-ing rooms.
This restaurant often caters for large banquets.
Their marriage was celebrated with barbaric pomp and festivity, at his wooden palace beyond the Danube; and the monarch, oppressed with wine and sleep, retired at a late hour from the banquet to the nuptial bed.
An awards banquet, the first ever specifically for blacks in the broadcast industry, was held at the Waldorf-Astoria.
I invited my family to Wembley and we had a big banquet that night with players, friends and family. The Sun
He'd walked the various courtyards, banquet halls and audience rooms during the few times when the Inner Circle had been required to meet.
He was photographed and pointed out and banqueted and invited to speak at opulent charity events. Mark Twain
This restaurant often caters for large banquets.
At the banquet all the foreign guests wore evening dress.
Then the ghost of Banquo, all gory and bloody comes to haunt Macbeth at the banquet.
A banquet in honor of Nordlie begins at 7 p.m.
He little dreamed till then, not he, that there had been banquetings and junketings, secret doings and deep drinkings at his expense. Doctor Thorne
Frederic, though unconscious of the Thyestean nature of the banquet, still looked round for the dog; and, not perceiving him, began to call out, "Fox! The Parisians — Volume 12
It was proposed that the new multi-purpose building would provide a function room, banqueting hall, theatre and would cater for civil weddings.
He said at the police Endangered Species Protection Unit (ESPU) banquet in Pretoria the code would be non-negotiable, and was aimed at reversing what he described as a breakdown in the criminal justice system. ANC Daily News Briefing
Take one of the large banquettes along the walls and eye up the girls on the dance floor, or gaze from the balcony on boys below doing their breaks.
I have considered the dormice served with honey and poppy-seed and the grape-fed beccafico dressed with _garum piperatum_, which, according to Petronius, were served at Trimalchio's banquet. The Orchard of Tears
Bouncing Bounce Deuce and creating a sparse, white brick walled space outfitted with park bench-style booths, large U-shaped leather banquettes, and Calder-esque hanging fixtures, Van's specializing in Northern Euro beers, infused akvavit, and Genever-aided cocktails like the lemon/bitters/roobis-infused vermouth B Side Sling. Thrillist: Vandaag: Northern European Eats
Spoiled, greedy, selfish, North Americans, of which I am one, fearful of someone taking a crumb from a banquet table is what we are. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Illegal Immigration and the Rule of Law
The long hallway he entered thronged with people in various uniforms -- housekeepers and bellmen, waitresses and housemen, bartenders and banquet waiters. Delta Search
Features a huge banqueting hall, moat and a fire pit. The Sun
His interior pieces on display include medieval banquet tables, slender candlesticks and chandeliers, and mirrors.
Bernard paid for his tea and took the lift to the 2nd floor and tried the door of the banquet hall, which opened.
Regarding the Salon delle conversazione: in describing the term salon, Alberti alludes to its derivation (he believes) from saltare, to dance, "because that was where the gaiety of weddings and banquets took place. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
But both the Italians and the Englishman felt the entertainment would be incomplete without hearing the celebrated vocalist and improvvisatrice who presided over the little banquet; and Madame de Montaigne, with a woman's tact, divined the general wish, and anticipated the request that was sure to be made. Ernest Maltravers — Complete
A supervisory position came open in the hotel's banquet department.
A prop from Hogwarts banqueting hall, it has been brought here by the film's distributor as an atmospheric piece of set dressing for the interview.
The guests banqueted until midnight.
Great Lakes started off with a floating awards banquet, as guests boarded a paddlewheel steamer for dinner and a cruise on the Illinois River.
Its banqueting hall became the officers' mess. Times, Sunday Times
Later, Charles I, when he presumed to authority above that of Parliament, was prodded out a window in the Banqueting House in White Hall where, on a makeshift platform, his head was chopped off by a French swordsman imported for the occasion. Call Out the Instigator; There's Something in the Air!
At Athens the the leitourgia was the public service performed by the wealthier citizens at their own expense, such as the office of gymnasiarch, who superintended the gymnasium, that of choregus, who paid the singers of a chorus in the theatre, that of the hestiator, who gave a banquet to his tribe, of the trierarchus, who provided a warship for the state. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
That evening, a banquet was given for the newly elected Senator and three women members of the House of Representatives.
BARBARA BRADLEY HAGERTY: If past is prologue, about 200 residents of Mount Prospect, Illinois, will cram into a banquet hall at 7: 30 on Thursday morning. Day Of Prayer Becomes Culture War Skirmish
The pediment of the town hall had been hung with garlands of ivy; a tent had been erected in a meadow for the banquet; and in the middle of the Place, in front of the church, a kind of bombarde was to announce the arrival of the prefect and the names of the successful farmers who had obtained prizes. Madame Bovary
Macbeth invites Banquo to attend a dinner banquet in the evening as an honored guest.
They went through a large hall, called the banqueting hall, to a window in front, through which a passage had been made for the king to his scaffold, which was built up in the street before the palace. Charles I Makers of History
They explained that she was going to a banquet next evening in honor of her embarking on the quest.
Tim declared that the banquet would have been perfect if we could have had a little of the "cratur," or, in the absence of it, a cup of hot coffee. The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco
My eyes darted from the custom-built white vinyl banquette to the ‘solid gold’ piano.
The banquet is permeated with an atmosphere of friendship.
There I told them all the tale of the last night and of the flasket, and put before them all that was in my mind to do that evening at the banquet, and they both of them yeasaid it. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
Withdrawing from the banquet and watching others move chess pieces was more compatible with his bleak mood.
Feast on a banquet fit for a clan chief on the last night. Times, Sunday Times
In failing to make a loan deal with Hearts permanent during the summer, he is the man who may have turned down the chance of a banquet for whatever nibbles might come the way of Gordon Chisholm's men this week, and, it is to be hoped, beyond.
Medieval banquets, Viking feasts, dinner parties, wedding ceremonies, conferences and exhibitions: you name it, this venue can do it.
Dubkoff would first have, an argument about something, and then read in a sententious voice either some verses beginning “Au banquet de la vie, infortune convive” or extracts from The Youth
He is taken to a magnificent banquet, lubricated by the choicest alcohol, three glasses at a time.
Anyone walking through the doors of the company premises should prepare themselves for a veritable banquet of glass.
At the banquet the king took his station, incog. in a little closet made out of the cloyster of St. St.phen's, on the right side of the hall. Coronation Anecdotes
These sweets were important components of the final course or banquet in the meals of wealthy households.
The whole of the banquet scene is mimed.
And so the population was gradually led into the demoralising temptations of arcades, baths, and sumptuous banquets. BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
Larry puzzled over the situation: Should the banquette be held for the diva, or bequeathed to the refreshingly unassuming — and relievedly present — young actress? Ye Waverly Blog: Stood Up: Vanity Fair
Ramadan is followed by Iftar, a sumptuous banquet where friends and family gather to celebrate the break of fast.
When we compare the present life of man on earth with that time of which we have no knowledge, it seems to me like the swift flight of a sparrow through the banqueting-hall where you are sitting at dinner on a winter's day.
The place which the Spoufe was broueht to, • the banqueting houfe, 'or houfe of wine, i.c. of feafting, be - caufe wine is a principal part of feafts; by which we are to un - derftand the order, or means, whereby Chrift: conveys his graces and bleiiings to believers; and there is none of all the. ordinances of the gofpel that may more fitly be called the banqueting or feaft - ixig houfe, than this of the Lord's fupper, which is the great got - pel feail wherewith Chrift entertains his people on earth. Sacramental Meditations and Advices Grounded Upon Scripture Texts: Proper for Communicants, to ...
Graham sat down on the nearest banquette, a puzzled look on his face. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
By day, Prato acts as a café with the requisite papers and mags laid out on the back of a high, leather banquette.
His comment on the hymn itself traces its wording to several passages of Revelation and notes how the antiphon relates the hymn to the Eucharistic banquet of which it is a part.
There are catwalk skyways, a mezzanine bar, and lots of roomy, Steven Seagal-era power banquettes made of shiny black vinyl.
There will be a banquet and other events on Sunday night, November 28.
When this Lorde had well banqueted them, hee presently called for his barge, and did accompany the said galley to the Lorde general the Earle of Essex, who then did ride with his ship a good distance off: and there they being in like maner most honorably receiued, and intertained, the The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
A hound of hell bursting from a banqueting table? Times, Sunday Times
Its banqueting hall became the officers' mess. Times, Sunday Times
Offering wonderful views of Sydney Harbour, the restaurant is a swish mix of chocolate-coloured banquettes, bar canapes, perfect service and contemporary Australian cuisine.
On the way back from the awards banquet, the man from the Optimists Club drove too fast-just like her husband-and Ruth, who was tall and sat forward in the seat, swayed as though she were top-heavy.
He pretends to comply with Tamora's request and summons his son Lucius to his house, but he also offers to arrange for a banquet to entertain his guests.
The move marks a bitter blow for the shopping centre's owners who will see the call centre and the former Garons banqueting suite unoccupied as well as the old C & A store.
She disgraced herself by drinking too much at the banquet.
In all the halls of the palace servants instantly laid tables for a banquet.
Twenty-two minutes from a gold medal and with it the promise of a lifetime of backslapping, banquet invitations, halls of fame.
In this prudent way every portion of the Castle Gorka hogs was utilized: the good cuts for the banquet, the tougher ones in Pani Danusia's pierogi, the haslet in Poland
Besides, the banqueting hall was small and the Collector could not get far.
There is a visual banquet of samples and swatches available for the asking, so if you like something ask for a little taster to slip into your bag.
At the banquet all the foreign guests wore evening dress.
Rossini would preside at the first three representations, and, after receiving a grand civic banquet, set out for the next place, his portmanteau fuller of music-paper than of other effects, and perhaps a dozen sequins in his pocket. The Great Italian and French Composers
the author's description of the banquet called up delicious aromas
It gave a sharp kling-klang like a suddenly struck cymbal -- and lo! ... the marble floor yawned asunder, and the banquet-table with all its costly fruits and flowers vanished underground with the swiftness of lightning! Ardath
NEGOTIATOR — Leckerbiss Pasha of Roumelia, then Chief Galeongee of the Porte, gave a diplomatic banquet at his summer palace at The Book of Snobs
They take pleasure in tall ceilings, which conjure images of banquets and feasting, and waiters with aprons wrapped around their bellies.
Incident D, the Thyestean banquet, is widespread throughout European saga and Märchen literature: but even this incident Cosquin (I: xxxix) connects with India through an Annamite tale. Filipino Popular Tales
Most of the aquamaniles in the National Museum were used in churches, but these two were used at banquets in prosperous homes.
The realistic description of the sumptuous banquet in B1 and the wide range of Xenophanes 'reported geographical and geological interests all sit poorly with an Eleatic Xenophanes
It's a great happiness to us to have a grand banquet in your honour here.
Finally, they fetched us from the room and brought us down through the kitchen to the banquet hall.
The gentleman dealers were placed around a long banqueting table with the auctioneer at its head. AN UNLIKELY COUNTESS: Lily Budge and the 13th Earl of Galloway
The next day he presented the Senate and plebs with a banquet, his pure, stainless, and holy body, the bread of angels, of which man has partaken, and he set chalices filled with wine before them.
Nowhere else in the world, the chef confided, could he have the freedom to create such a banquet.
Henry IV had a doucet at his coronation banquet in 1399. Archive 2006-01-01
A new banqueting hall was built in their honour. Times, Sunday Times
Faithful visitors may recall the review that appeared here on Saturday 13 September, which began with an account of a wealthy vulgarian's banquet in AD79.
We banqueted the visiting president in grand style.
Medieval banquets are held in the castle once a month.
Whatever had taken place in the banqueting hall after my departure, there was now a genuinely celebratory atmosphere amongst the guests.
Our table was backed up to an L-shaped banquette, with two straight chairs nearer the fire. SUMMER OF SECRETS
Ancient Romans enjoyed many types of entertainment, but the most popular were bathing, bloody spectacles, and banquets.
The big event on Saturday is the election of the new chieftain and clan banquet in the Abbeyleix Manor Hotel.
The 450 prisoners also tucked into ethnic banquets and watched Scottish guards play bagpipes. The Sun
During the late troubles, the treasures of the state, and even the furniture of the palace, had been alienated or embezzled; the royal banquet was served in pewter or earthenware; and such was the proud poverty of the times, that the absence of gold and jewels was supplied by the paltry artifices of glass and gilt-leather. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The dinner epergne remained at chambers, and figured at the banquets there, which the Colonel gave pretty freely. The History of Pendennis
The saltwater univalve with the ear-shaped shell, iridescent inside, contains a rock-clinging creature which, when pounded thin and tender, like a scaloppine, holds pride of place at Chinese banquets. A New Shell Game
One might as well propose steak tartare for the banquet of the next world congress of vegans.
At night the cupboard in the hall was of twelve stages mainly furnished with garnish of gold and silver vessul, and a banquet of seventy dishes, and after a voidee of spices and suttleties with thirty six spice-plates; all at the charges of sir Thomas Pope. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
A new banqueting hall was built in their honour. Times, Sunday Times
A banquet of tiger prawn and lemon quinoa risotto. Times, Sunday Times
The warm and stylish interior includes bar stools, bistro style tables and maroon leather banquettes to sit at.
When the meeting was over we were shown into a high-ceilinged intermediary room, a great banqueting hall, with a fine, thick, ornamentally patterned carpet. Archive 2009-10-01
While it may seem that the pork banquet will never end, it is clearly not sustainable at current levels of taxation.
A great banquet was served during the day, and I often gave myself a bellyache by eating too much while listening to speaker after speaker.
He built palaces and banqueting halls on the hill and held meetings of the other provincial kings every three years at which time they made laws and held festivals of music and sport.
Having settled into your pile of soft furnishings, be prepared to be served a veritable banquet of the finest Moroccan cuisine.
If a toast is proposed at a royal banquet, she merely pretends to take a sip. AT HOME WITH THE QUEEN: The Inside Story of the Royal Household
Dinners at the convention hotel, especially the closing banquet, are more formal.
The purple suedette banquettes are very tight. Times, Sunday Times
Thankfully the dirty plates were finally cleaned from the table, replaced with other elegant cups and bowls, and the banquet continued with at least another 20 specialties, culminating with the tiniest sweet cakes filled with my favorite red bean paste. Patrizia Chen: Eating 'City Lamb' in China
He is then said to be possessed, [8] as it were, and it requires only a banquet to the neighboring _datus_ and warrior chiefs to confirm his title. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir
My friend, for some mysterious reason, was left untouched, but the regiments that should have quartered on him joined those that were banqueting on my too unsolid flesh. Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885
The spikenard was for the banquet (So 1: 12); the myrrh was in her bosom continually (So 1: 13); the camphire is in the midst of natural beauties, which, though lovely, are eclipsed by the one cluster, Jesus Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Outside the dolium were a banquet service consisting of a small bronze and iron table, ribbed bronze phialai (libation bowls), and other vessels; an ax, lance, helmet, and scepter; and the iron fittings of a two-wheeled chariot. Dig Like a Surgeon

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