How To Use Feast In A Sentence

Moreover, it is expressly added that if the day before the Passover falls on a Sabbath, one may in this manner purchase a Paschal lamb, and, presumably, all else that is needful for the feast.
Should we no do a little what you call shopping for the babies, and haf a farewell feast tonight if I go for my last call at your so pleasant home?" he asked, stopping before a window full of fruit and flowers. Little Women
They talked, feasted for hours on rich Italian food, and drank heavily - all for free.
Men who give frequent feasts that are well attended generally gain renown for themselves. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
Late in the day, just after we had feasted on the fruits of a wild cacao, we came upon a three-toed sloth climbing slowly through the upper branches of a cecropia tree. One River

Elsewhere during the Hangover technology beanfeast, we understand that HP's own demo of Bluetooth was similarly rotten.
On the ground she was fêted with lavish hospitality by friends waiting at every far-flung airfield to whisk her off to a celebratory feast.
It was one of these dishes that are a tasting menu in and of themselves, giving you the sensory pleasures of a voluptuous feast - only in tiny, manageable portions.
Shy leaves hide under their brethren as the icy chill dives and chases each one like a predator feasting on a school of fish.
As soon as the Red Sox saw he had neither, they ignored his breaking balls and feasted on his fastballs en route to a 6-4 win on Tuesday night in the Bronx. Score Sheet
A breastknot of valley lilies added to the loveliness, and I allowed my eyes to feast on her fairness. Vicky Van
Communal feasting is central to marking birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, achievements, significant purchases, and major public holidays.
I will not be there with a £180 ticket to be biffed into kingdom come by some insane person on the end of a weighted rope - or falling off it - but good luck to those who come to brave the 2 chords of U2 at warp volume and other truffles of this cultural feast. Bono and The Edge defend Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
Once a year the up-river migration of the salmon heading for their spawning grounds provides a great feast.
Lunch was a feast of meat and vegetables, cheese, yoghurt and fruit, with unlimited wine.
`He was her sugar daddy ," Betty had supplied later, over a Fourth of July feast of cinnamon buns. STONE CITY
All those women and children excursion beanfeast burned and drowned in New York. Ulysses
All combined to create a feast of entertainment for the packed audiences who attended over both nights.
The feast begins with a few hunks of soft onion bread and a thimbleful of an intensely rich roasted-eggplant garlic spread.
The assistant peered through the window and saw a group of people feasting, drinking, and reveling.
This wonderful new series provides a feast for the ears as it explores the importance of film soundtracks. The Sun
Judas and his men thanked these people and asked them to extend the same kindness to his race in the future. Then they returned to Jerusalem, since the feast of Weeks of Pentecost was approaching.
A chef checks his charge during preparations for a feast near Asuncion, Paraguay. The barbeque was meant to shatter the world record for the globe's largest grill-off.
Beneath the tough outer casing and linear silhouettes are a feast of soft frills and folds.
After the feast was over, we had kava, and the calling of the kava was a very elaborate affair, and I thought had like to have made Vailima Letters
I have bats upstairs who will feast tonight, and that's good.
Instead of offering the traditional vanilla whip cones, these frozen feasts contain gammon and chicken ice cream.
Lunch was a feast of meat and vegetables, cheese, yoghurt and fruit, with unlimited wine.
The Jewish feast of Passover began last night.
Ebou Dar seemed to be trying to make up for time lost yesterday, not to mention at High Chasaline and the Feast of Lights, and well it might, considering that tomorrow night was the Feast of Embers, with Maddin's Day, celebrating the founder of Altara, two days after that, and the Feast of the Half Moon the following night. A Crown of Swords
Beside her the great fire crackles under the wooden eaves of the feasting hall. Times, Sunday Times
Charles Gordon Frazer painted Cannibal Feast to provide an insight into the cannibal civilisations he feared were on the brink of extinction after witnessing the feast while hiding in long grass.
Crystalline hyenas ran rampant through the bailey and feasted on the fallen. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
Villagers used to hold a great feast at harvest time.
At the end, the grandpas and grandmas were treated with a belated but sumptuous Onam feast which the aged from various day care centres and old age homes in the city enjoyed.
Lengeling provides tables of the frequency of readings from both Testaments in fourteen Western liturgical books but without indicating where there might be only one such usage on the vigil of a feast not celebrated widely.
So how did it emerge as such a sumptuous musical feast? Times, Sunday Times
What with ripened berries, snails, slugs and insects, there was a veritable feast on offer.
Achilles slaughters sheep and they feast and drink.
The king promised to hold a great feast for all his people.
Further evidence for ceremonial feasting is indicated by the presence of quantities of cattle and caprine bones in funerary contexts.
Expect wonderful dancing and a visual feast. Times, Sunday Times
The colors of the candles lit each night and Swahili terminology are included, along with Tokunbo's favorite karamu (feast) recipe for brownies to give away with a surprise for each recipient. Spokesman.com: Latest stories
Having again experienced, in November 2006, the joy and emotion of the personal and blessed participation of Your Holiness in the patronal feast of Constantinople, the commemoration of the St. Andrew the Apostle, the First Called, I set out "with a joyous step" from Fener in the New Rome, to come to you to participate in your joy in the patronal feast of Old Rome. Archive 2008-06-29
The biggest holiday among Basques is the feast of their patron saint, Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order.
There's betrayal, murder, raucous feasts, flamenco dancing and the occasional talking tree.
If I can rustle up the money to send Mustafa and his mother back to Turkey for a big family beanfeast, could you see your way to providing a medical certificate that will satisfy the school authorities? Absolute Friends
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
It is the intense hunger for soul food, soulful music, spirited dance, and wild, ecstatic, celebrative praise, whether it be voiced by the ghosts of former African slaves on Congo Square or by the choirs of old-time Black Churches, or the bands backing Second Line dancers, or the street music in dialogue with window shoppers and feast-ready patrons. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
Even our first parents ate themselves out of paradise; and Job's children junketed and feasted together often, but the reckoning cost them dear at last. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II.
It also has the weighty responsibility of inhibiting the conversion of body fat back into glucose for the body to burn (a hangover from our feast-or-famine cave days).
In preparation for the great feast, the shophar is sounded morning and evening excepting Sabbaths, throughout the entire preceeding month of Elul. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
That evening will be the conclusion of the triduum in preparation for the feast day, which takes place on Wednesday, June 25, Thursday, June 26 and Friday, June 27.
You shouldn't have troubled yourself to prepare such a feast!
These days, Midsummer is celebrated with songs, feasts, and dancing around the maypole.
Christmas was soon complemented by the feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple, forty days after his birth.
Administrative institutions such as kin, hundred, borough, and witan figure prominently, as do feast, fast day, religiosity, and language.
The proliferation of narrowly based mutual aid societies and festas (feste, or feast days) honoring local patron saints were manifestations of these tendencies.
Beside her the great fire crackles under the wooden eaves of the feasting hall. Times, Sunday Times
The thanksgiving dinner, the feast ... that was it, of course.
How right to call Thalia to the feast:" and of some others he says: Politics: A Treatise on Government
We have always "feasted" to endure the "famine" that always followed -- until now. T.S. Wiley: Sick and Tired, the Book of the Dead
But other readings are extremely tendentious, and deixis is often a movable feast providing ready-prepared answers. The Times Literary Supplement
I admit the Mayener wench knows how to order a city, but she thinks every day is the Feast of Lights. Lord of Chaos
On the island itself, due to the dominance of Roman Catholicism, the feast of saints and other Church holy days are observed.
Top chefs show how to cook a festive feast. The Sun
Brother John, who became the prior at Mont-Cornillon in 1242, must have been the first male to whom Juliana spoke regarding her vision for the new feast.
Marine invertebrates feast on the wood, attracting other creatures from little fish, to birds and sharks.
It was at these capitals where the chief would feast his people after collecting very beautiful and attractive sand, which he spread around the palace.
Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
The children had a midnight feast in their tents.
Also patron of poets. Feast day, November 23.
A ha'p'orth of bread and a ha'p'orth of butter made a royal feast.
This wonderful new series provides a feast for the ears as it explores the importance of film soundtracks. The Sun
Blow the trumpet at the new moon , At the full moon, on our feast day.
Coca - Cola parties in Georgia, the chitterling strut in North Carolina, cooking for the threshers in Nebraska, a Choctaw funeral, and a Puget Sound Indian salmon feast. ‘The Food of a Younger Land’
Feast Your Eyes was a modern fairytale about food and mealtimes. Times, Sunday Times
What I will say in finishing is that if you loved the high octane fight scenes with slow-motion effects thrown in of Transformers 1 then prepare yourself for a visual feast and go and see this movie. Movie Revenge | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
Furthermore, a stroll around the campus offers a visual feast you don't have to be a fine artist to appreciate.
A cat-sized marsupial called a quoll has a habit of feasting on toxic cane toads. WN.com - Articles related to Long-distance journeys are out of fashion: Global warming is causing evolutionary changes in bird migration
This quass-feast was for the chiefs, and the chiefs only, and there was THE DEATH OF LIGOUN
The troparion sung during our celebration of the feast indicates how we have come to appreciate this curious phenomenon: Scott Cairns: Holy Theophany: The Baptism Of Jesus And The Blessing Of The Waters
It is thought thousands of people travelled for hundreds of miles bringing their cattle with them for the feast, which was held after the Roman invasion.
The guests had gathered to enjoy a rich meal, celebrating the first day of the wedding feast.
As a contrast, I follow them up with Nigella's Finger Lickin' Ribs, from her book Feast, a deliberately quick recipe designed, apparently, for eating "oozy and sticky" in bed, which cooks at 200C for an hour. How to cook perfect barbecue ribs
Thousands of them, feasting on aconitum, astrantia, geranium, centaurea, elaeagnus, nepeta and lamium. Times, Sunday Times
In Italy, spring offers a feast of events for the art lover.
The evening feast included diced fatty flesh of tuna fish and milk - fed lamb with herbs.
With sylvan surroundings, the falls covered with tall lush green forest trees and salubrious climate is a feast to eyes.
They banqueted in the hall where in medieval times the Teutonic Knights had feasted. Emancipation
Accustomed chiefly to fish, herbs, and roots, the succulent beef had charms which outweighed surprise, and another night was spent in feasting on the "oddments" of the fresh killed beef. Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland
He wasn't above belching and farting during family feasts.
In a broader sense, New Orleans is a ‘movable feast’, a flask of good wine that you carry with you wherever you are.
After our huge feast the day prior, we didn't feel like going out and I was happy to veg out and do nothing.
Sizzling on the table, a nabe can be the best feast you can have on a cold winter day.
Following the event the school students retired to the community centre where they feasted on sweets, chocolates and biscuits.
The second Sunday after Easter is now dedicated to the Divine Mercy - a new feast day instituted by John Paul himself based on the visions of his sainted compatriot, Faustina Kowalska.
The women and children especially found him friendly and did him the honor of welcoming him to their great pumpkin feast.
This book is somewhat dense, but if you like big slabs of no-nonsense political history, it is a feast.
Jacob Jordaens, a Flemish artist, painted The Feast of the Bean King 16401645, one of six Twelfth Night festival paintings, which shows, among other things, a little girl drinking wine. Let Me Eat Cake
In the Middle Ages these were known as ‘clog almanacs’, made of metal, wood or horn, with notches and symbols marking the lunar months and the church feast days.
But, whereas the vast majority of youngsters tucked into chips and feasted on cake, fresh fruit and yoghurts were not as popular.
She feasted her eyes on the beautiful painting.
n. announcement of the Incarnation to Mary, mother of Jesus; feast celebrated on Lady Day (March 25); Annunciation lily, madonna lily. annunciative, annunciatory, anobiid Xml's Blinklist.com
This Living Dead Girl is no brainless zombie intent only on brains, she is a thinking, rationale being with a strong sense of right and wrong who just happens to be back from the dead…and is a very messy blood-feaster. The Living Dead Girl (1982)
Festivals were holidays and feasts and the Church even said there should be no fasting on such days.
The eighth is the identical in text, but not in music, to the Introit of the feast of the Holy Trinity, and has a different versicle accompanying it; the last of these nine is the famous “Ubi caritas.” Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 3 - The Mass of Holy Thursday and the Mandatum
And then you get to feast on the best Mexican food the desert has to offer at our Fiesta Dinner, complete with mariachis!
That night, we feast on beef stew beneath two oil lamps. The Sun
During the whole of Lent the Greek church still celebrates, towards evening, only the mass of the presanctified, except on Saturdays and Sundays, and on the feast of the Annunciation, when the ordinary mass is offered up. The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome
How many of you have scratched your head into baldness trying to come up with something new and interesting to say on the Feast of the Transfiguration?
And with a maddening clutch about his heart he saw again the tragic searching in her eyes when she had said, "Then you have known me long, your Grace," and afterwards, so soft and strangely slow, "Then you might have been one of those who came to my birthnight feast, and saw my life begin. His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality
Bees feast on New Zealand's native manuka, kamahi and rewarewa blooms for Airborne Honey's mild to malty flavors ($7; airborne. co.nz). The Good Life
Butter-milk, skimmed milk and whey were also drunk but probably not in such great quantity at a feast.
But the ceramics are not far behind, a feast of shimmering lusterware, deep turquoise stonepaste, and a plethora of blue-and-white works that include the 14th-century prayer niche—or mihrab—that visitors to the old galleries will remember. The Many Paths Toward an Islamic Aesthetic
Also on days when there is a principal or processional feast, each one of them, including the hebdomadary, is to have five eggs. Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino
There's a feast of films vying for moviegoers' attention this season.
The result is we gorge on special diets, feast on miracle fitness plans and devour self-help books. The Sun
Press play below for your @KrisAllen amuse-bouche, then check back later this week for the entire interview feast. Kris Allen on Internet rumors: 'That stuff breaks you down as an artist and a songwriter' | EW.com
After the island came a long beach stroll; oystercatchers plundered the mussel beds and crows feasted on small crabs.
Thousands of them, feasting on aconitum, astrantia, geranium, centaurea, elaeagnus, nepeta and lamium. Times, Sunday Times
-- when their lords travelled from place to place -- with summer-oats, with providing for their cosherings, or feasts, at Christmas and Easter, with "black men and black money," for border defence, and with workmen and axemen from every ploughland, to work in the ditches, or to hew passages for the soldiery through the woods. A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete
S. Gregory Nyssen says that the Feast of Lights, and of the A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide
Maybe her experience with crawfish boils made her more open to the joys of labor-intensive feasts.
One evening the club had met as usual, and Tom had mixed his first tumbler of potheen punch, after "the feast of shells" was over, when somebody happened to mention the name of Edmund Kean, with the remark that he had once played in a barn in that very town. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841
Nine times out of 10 when he finds gannets, pelicans, or terns diving on bay anchovies, pogies, or threadfin herring, he also finds a school of redfish feasting on the same bait. Flyfishing for Redfish on the Flats from Texas to Florida
Emulously they renew the feast, and, glad at the high omen, array the flagons and engarland the wine. The Aeneid of Virgil
Li Faa, from the Chinese angle, was a new woman, a feminist, who rode horseback astride, disported immodestly garbed at Waikiki on the surf-boards, and at more than one luau (feast) had been known to dance the hula with the worst and in excess of the worst, to the scandalous delight of all. THE TEARS OF AH KIM
The saved would feast on the sight of the sufferings of the damned.
Easter Sunday of 1459, Vlad invited all of the aristocrats, called boyars, who had played a role in his father's death, to a feast.
I am sticking this recipe in my cap — it will be a nice treat to have after all the feasting is over and we head into the lean months. Drinking Chocolate | Baking Bites
A healthy diet is, if you'll forgive the pun, a movable feast.
Because of this, a household obliged to sponsor many feasts gains no prestige, but becomes rather an object of pity.
And this season's contest, to be held on March 29 at Percy Road, should be no different with a feast of rugby set to be on offer.
And it’s true: Sitting with others, even in companionable silence, at our own humble, artisanal feast of creation is healing me. Archive 2009-11-01
Sometimes there are large numbers of gulls, because they can be seen from far off, and more and more come flying in to join the feast. Times, Sunday Times
The mirasis sang wedding songs throughout the ' ladies ' sangeet ' night and the entire village was invited to a feast at our house the next day.
A large number of people visiting the exhibition grounds thronged the Kalavedika where they were feasted to a cultural bonanza.
Catholic liturgies, particularly before the Second Vatican Council, were sensual feasts, complete with incense, candles and bells.
You'll find stunning vineyard landscapes and majestic mountain vistas along the way, and if it's harvest time there are feasts and festivals galore.
Together, heaven and earth offer one hymn, one prayer, one feast, and one doxology.
The state government has brought nuptials of all religious hues under the Essential Commodities Act to prevent wastage of food at wedding feasts.
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
Each province has at least one local festival of its own, usually on the feast of its patron saint, so that there is always a fiesta going on somewhere in the country.
Nestled among shimmering aspens and cottonwoods on 3 secluded, wildflower-dappled acres, this hand-hewn log home serves up a feast for the eyes.
The name-giving ceremony is a formal occasion celebrated by feasting and drinking.
Easter: a Christian feast commemorating the Resurrection of Jesus.
But it was not our fault that, in translating village feast into _fête de village_, she had allowed her imagination to mislead her with false hopes. Six to Sixteen A Story for Girls
But in the developed, Western world, the feasting periods are no longer interspersed with famines.
Villagers used to hold a great feast at harvest time.
'And the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labours, which them hast sown In thy field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.' Expositions of Holy Scripture
If any of you folks watched “Feasting on Waves” with Alton Brown, this is a great place to try some of the foods that he featured in the show (such as provisions, mauby, etc) Downtown Lunch: Veronica's Kitchen | Midtown Lunch: Downtown NYC
After gorging on a feast, don't hit the roads drunk and drowsy.
Sally was in high feather at the success of her exploit, and danced about like an elf, as she put her night-gown on over her frock, braided her hair in funny little tails all over her head, and fastened the great red pin-cushion on her bosom for a breastpin in honor of the feast. An Old-Fashioned Girl
The character has a variety of origins, from the medieval court jester to the licensed clown of the Feast of Fools.
With more than 400 works, including 275 paintings, 50 of the late paper cutouts and an assortment of sculptures, drawings and prints, the massive show has temporarily displaced the entire permanent collection from two floors of the museum It's like a long, languorous alfresco feast in the south of France, with course after course of the painterly equivalent of ripe fruit, creme fraiche, warm bread and the giddy intoxication of perfumy rose. The Most Beautiful Show In The World
Described as ‘feisty’ and partial to a feast of rotting vegetables, baby Great Land Crabs are often tan in colour, turning a deep shade of violet as they mature.
Free from the shackles of relegation, there was the tantalising prospect of uncaged tigers released to feast and relieve their frustration on the home side.
It is August 14, 1941, the vigil of the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Mother, the Woman clothed with the sun and the moon and the stars, who long before had promised young Maximilian the twin crowns of purity and martyrdom for God. Anti-Catholicism
Carla Gottlieb years ago identified the text along the edge of Mary's garment in two of the four panels, the Visitation and the Presentation in the Temple, as from a Marian antiphon sung at the Feast of the Purification.
Once the ceremony was over, the novitiates, priestesses and nuns gathered together in the great hall beneath the statue of Auset for a feast.
On coin and jewel, in prayer and song they bore the Rose-Venus to every land in a living, ever-thrilling romaunt -- far goldener, more thrilling with poetry than was in later times the dull lay of De Loris and Clopinel: for wherever man found joy and beauty in life, feast, and song, she -- the The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
William built a motte and bailey castle on Pevensey Bay and held a feast to celebrate the Normans' safe arrival.
Some impressions from the Mass and procession on the feast of Corpus Christi celebrated by Pope Benedict in Rome: Corpus Christi 2009 in Rome
Back on the original path, this album is a feast of rain stick, electronics, cymbal reverb, soft percussion and backwards dissolves.
These little shops are a feast for the eyes and crammed full of unusual delights. The Sun
I know not whether it is from the temper of the people, grave and enthusiastic as it certainly is, or from the recollection of the ancient Catholic opinions, when the funeral rites were always considered as a period of festival to the living; but feasting, good cheer, and even inebriety, were, and are, the frequent accompaniments of a Scottish old-fashioned burial. The Bride of Lammermoor
From the Holy Father's June 6, 2007, General Audience on St. Cyprian, "the first Bishop in Africa to obtain the crown of martyrdom", whose feast is celebrated today: Saints
_A Description of the natives of_ Louisiana; _of their manners and customs, particularly those of the_ Natchez: _of their language, their religion, ceremonies_, Rulers _or_ Suns, _feasts, marriages, &c. History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing
The fruit was often served at wedding feasts.
For the region's playgroups and nurseries it has been a feast of babies, bonnets and bunnies in the lead-up to Easter.
With its clear chicken broth, bits of green onion, finely shredded cabbage and artfully fastened dumplings, said soup is a fine way to begin your feast.
Twice she had spurred him on in the scallop shack behind Joe 's house, the mosquitoes feasting merrily on his back. AMAGANSETT
Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship. John Milton
These creatures would feast on Mexican insects and have no more trouble than a slight case of indigestion from the effort. Insects
The valley was unsurveyed for the most part, and the Indians naturally felt a sort of proprietorship in it, and when Wilson drove his cattle down into the valley and "squatted," the chief, Drifting Crane, welcomed him as a host might to an abundant feast whose hospitality was presumed upon, but who felt the need of sustaining his reputation as a host, and submitted graciously. Drifting Crane
You have a chance to wander in and try pies from Dangerously Delicious, eat lobster rolls on a temporary sidewalk patio outside Liberty Tree or feast on Ethiopian dishes from Ethiopic, for starters. Food, music, art and Oktoberfest at the H Street Festival
One is the feast of St. Leonard, the patron saint of livestock, who is honored each November with festive horse-and-cart parades.
After enjoying the breathtaking views along the east coast for about an hour the dinner gong chimed and all went below deck to feast on the lavish buffet provided by this 5 star establishment.
It is at pains to point out that much of the ceremony took place during the Christmas vigil and on the feast of the Nativity.
Leslie Hoffman, the Executive Director of Earth Pledge pulled off quite a coup in enlisting twenty-eight internationally recognized designers for the creation of a one-of-kind collection that incorporates a feast of organic fibers and textiles. FUTUREFASHION: Earth Pledge Remakes Fashion Week | Inhabitat
The Nascopies do not feast on the "viscera" of their victims, nor do Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II. (of 2)
Communal feasting practices in Cyprus have a long pedigree, possibly stretching back into the Chalcolithic period, but were certainly established by the prehistoric Bronze Age.
In fact, you think the move -- which preps you for a BLOOD FEAST-style glossectomy that never happens -- is a bout finisher until Dr. Kutter, in her struggle (but obviously still thinking with the chill practicality of a certified clinician), reaches into a drawer full of medical instruments and grabs a scalpel (standard #10 blade) with a mind toward literally getting this freak off her back. 31 Screams: Diana Brown
The clip is included among the feast of DVD extras, alternative mixes and live recordings that accompany this multimedia anniversary edition.
(Woden's last words to Balder are famous); the riding round the pyre; the eulogium; the piling of the barrow, which sometimes took whole days, as the size of many existing grass mounds assure us; the funeral feast, where an immense vat of ale or mead is drunk in honor of the dead; the epitaph, like an ogham, set up on a stone over the barrow. The Danish History, Books I-IX
Chelsea set aside the mouthwatering prospect of the Champions League draw against Barcelona to return to their bread and butter and produced a goal feast for an exultant crowd.
I added bagels and jam and juice and milk and laid out the feast: ta-da.
Now that little meal of de Pomiane's is a feast, as a whole entity.
When the time came to cook the beast of an impromptu feast, I took the precaution to preboil some basmati rice, and clean and trim some broccoli and pick from the garden no less and wash some parsley and Vietnamese mint. Archive 2006-06-01
As Lihirian women were not participants in traditional exchanges, the model they work with is that of the male lineage or clan leader who is the organiser at feasts and takes on the main role of distributor of pigs and yams.
Among Indo-Fijians, feasting is associated with marriages and religious festivals.
At the festival, the people were revelling, drinking beer and wine and feasting on the sacrifices.
In the meanwhile, during your absence, I shall not be neglective of providing a wife for you, nor of those preparations which are requisite to be made for the more sumptuous solemnizing of your nuptials with a most splendid feast, if ever there was any in the world, since the days of Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
After the funeral was over, the squire went back to Up-Hill to eat the arvel-meal, [Death-feast.] and to hear the will of his old friend read. The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance
I remember that this loyal shoemaker was flattered to the skies, and (ominous sign, if he had understood it) feasted at the tables of some of the great. Letter 354
Jordan quickly consumed himself in playing with the toy as he feasted happily upon the sugars provided.
There are feasts of mushrooms and duck liver, wild strawberries from the woods.
There are very few salads that can so fully exercise the taste buds and provide the eye with such a visual feast, and few dishes that give gourmands such opportunity to play with different flavors and textures.
When they feast a friend they kill an ox, and set immediately a quarter of him raw upon the table (for their most elegant treat is raw beef newly killed) with pepper and salt; the gall of the ox serves them for oil and vinegar; some, to heighten the delicacy of the entertainment, add a kind of sauce, which they call manta, made of what they take out of the guts of the ox; this they set on the fire, with butter, salt, pepper, and onion. A Voyage to Abyssinia

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