How To Use Festal In A Sentence
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All servile work was forbidden on this day holy to the Lord; and all over the house, and in the face of all the family, I observed a kind of festal air.
The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
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The heaven in this poem is so far from being the incorporeal - the spiritual heaven of orthodox Christianity that you have an image of an actual orgy, the festal orgy raging under the thyrsus .
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Furthermore, in his discussion of the Ta series from Pylos, he observes that the inventorying of festal equipment fell under the purview of one of the most important scribes.
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Even from the island they could perceive that everything known as festal pleasure was rife in Alexandria, and bore along in its mad revelry the court and the citizens.
Cleopatra — Volume 08
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a festive (or festal) occasion
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Here, from the London Oratory on Brompton Road is their festally decorated side altar of St. Philip Neri:
St. Philip's Day from London and Birmingham
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Christian worship may be assumed to have been a matter of ritual from the start, because of its roots in Temple worship, common festal meals, and the baptismal practice of Jesus and John.
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Spring carry is the most scale collective on the world migrates, unique festal landscape.
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Their feasts were events of careful consideration and long preparation, and those whose memories carry them back to the early days, recall bounteous loading of tables when festal occasion called for display.
Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining.
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In the congregation assembled for worship, these two movements meet, and the heavenly angels join the children of God in festal celebration.
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Galleries flank the terrace, and on festal days in summer the whole can be thrown open for large receptions.
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Barton suggests that an Anglican bishop finds it in the festal cycle culminating in Holy Week, while the Methodist finds it in preaching.
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He built hospitals and buildings for several universities, and (in more festal mood) the heraldic gates of San Marino, the strange little independent republic not far from Urbino.
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The two released Shala men, clad in festal attire that had been brought for the purpose, and already fully armed, ran about madly embracing all their friends.
High Albania
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Verse 27 invites us to bind the festal procession with branches, gathering up Palm Sunday as well as Good Friday.
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On a festal night break in with roar of the fierce alalagmos. [
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2
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Stubbings is a previous Master of the Music and Missa Stella Splendens is a festal congregational communion setting.
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The hospital stands close adjacent to the town of Greenwich, which will always retain a kind of festal aspect in my memory, in consequence of my having first become acquainted with it on Easter Monday.
Our Old Home A Series of English Sketches A Series of English Sketches
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In the festal throng, the mixed noises and movement bring Tito into the carnival spirit of human joyful becoming where his personal anxieties are excluded.
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The priest enters, clad in festal robes, a type of the heavenly bride going to her divine nuptials (this very common Introit originated in the Greek liturgy).
A Little Rock'n'Roll with our Elevenses
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This would still beseem all doughty knights at high festal tides.
The Nibelungenlied
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The orgiastic reaches a licentious, contagious and unrestrainable climax in the festal - those moments occasioning transgressions of imposed morality.
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The advent of April came like a revelation of divine beauty to the little village nestled in the "coombe," and garlanded it from summit to base with tangles of festal flowers.
The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches
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Wallace guides preachers in linking their sermons to the festal, pastoral, and sanctoral calendar by connecting these liturgical occasions with three human ‘hungers.’
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A serious countenance did he bear as he passed through the two courts which separated his lodging from the festal chamber, and solemn as the gravity of a hogshead was the farewell caution with which he prayed Ludovic to attend his nephew's motions, especially in the matters of wenches and wine cups.
Quentin Durward
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The sky was bright; so were the girls, each in her festal dress, the peplos damp-pleated into tiny clinging folds, and fastened on the shoulders with gold brooches; the himation draped across, often an heirloom, with borders of six months 'work; hair freshly washed and waved, combed down over back and breasts.
The Praise Singer
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The towns were compact, in about equal proportions, of bright, new wooden houses and great and growing forest trees; and the chapel bell on the engine sounded most festally that sunny Sunday, as we drew up at one green town after another, with the townsfolk trooping in their Sunday's best to see the strangers, with the sun sparkling on the clean houses, and great domes of foliage humming overhead in the breeze.
The Silverado Squatters
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By and by, when in her turn, back in the festally decorated house, she came to give the newly married pair her felicitations, she was well pleased to see Stuart quite himself again, smiling at her with the proud look of the bridegroom from whom no human being can wrest the prize he has just secured.
Under the Country Sky
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On festal occasions, Christmas, Easter, or his fête-day, he became a magnificent figure in brocaded coat and white-satin waistcoat and knee-breeches; he had diamond shoe - and knee-buckles, diamond buttons on his waistcoat, and golden aiguillettes looped across his breast and shoulder.
A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago
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Two candelabra, with four candles each, lighted up festally the room which had waited so many years for the wandering nephew.
A Personal Record
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Dr David Hope praised the Queen's ‘unstinting service, profound wisdom and unswerving faith’ during her 50-year reign at a special festal evensong at York Minster.
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In other days there were festal dances, and funeral dances, and military dances, and "mediatorial" dances, and bacchanalian dances.
The Abominations of Modern Society
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Henriette, having gone about all the morning in petticoat and bed-jacket, began to prepare herself festally directly the midday-meal was over.
Two Tales of Old Strasbourg
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This suggests that - as in the case of meat - olive oil may have been a fairly regular element of Bronze Age festal and other diets.
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Various on-site locations are unique loci of festal carnality.
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It was eaten with a spoon and served on festal days as part of the main course.
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And the whole celebration will be rounded off at 6pm with a festal Eucharist in the parish church.
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Two candelabra with four candles each lighted up festally the room which had waited so many years for the wandering nephew.
Some Reminiscences
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A full Easter service and Festal evensong will be held at 6.30 pm.
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It starts outside the church with the lighting of new fire and the Paschal Candle followed by a full Easter service and Festal evensong at 6.30 pm.
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They were festally clad in celebration of our Sunday and of Seyyid Saïd's coming; the mothers walked up and down or stood in groups, talking and laughing and joking so vivaciously that one not knowing the country would never have taken them for the wives of the same man.
Memoirs of an Arabian Princess
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In the congregation assembled for worship, these two movements meet, and the heavenly angels join the children of God in festal celebration.
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Maisie received in petrification the full force of her mother's huge and painted eyes-they were like Japanese lanterns swung under festal arches.
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Fernandes left in autograph over 250 festal chanzonetas and villancicos.
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But such a view, it becomes clear, is only a semblance, since outside of carnival time's hope and progress, hardship contradicts festal joy.
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Indeed, the affectionate writer seems to have shared the poor people's feeling that they had thus festally received a sort of traitor with designs upon their pastor.
Life of John Coleridge Patteson
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A serious countenance did he bear as he passed through the two courts which separated his lodging from the festal chamber, and solemn as the gravity of a hogshead was the farewell caution with which he prayed Ludovic to attend his nephew’s motions, especially in the matters of wenches and wine cups.
Quentin Durward
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Yet, those brief hints do not tell us what we would dearly like to know: how the daily and festal ritual of sacrifice was carried out.
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Coste's only claim to attention is that his other anthem, Save me 0 God, picked up what has proved to be an adhesive attribution to Byrd, having been confused with Byrd's festal psalm of the same title.
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For me, for me, in festal halls it shall kindle o'er thy face!
Records of Woman, With Other Poems
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There is no more melancholy spectacle than a festal hall, the morning after the banquet, when the guests have departed and the lights are extinguished.
