How To Use festivity In A Sentence
- January was drawing to its close; the weather was growing more and more winterly; high winds, piercingly cold, were raving through our narrow streets; and still the spirit of social festivity bade defiance to the storms which sang through our ancient forests. The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English
- Over the years, other temples in the city too have begun celebrating Pongala in varying degrees of festivity and all of them have turned out to be occasions exclusively for women.
- a phrenesiac or lethargic patient, you would wonder where he hath sae suddenly acquired all this fine sprack festivity and jocularity. ' Waverley — Complete
- A boisterous festivity or celebration; merrymaking. Often used in the plural.
- Baron Kielmansegge, the common friend of both king and capellmeister, took occasion of a grand water-party, attended by the whole court, to engage Handel to compose some music expressly for this festivity, the result being the celebrated 'Water Music,' of which Handel secretly conducted the performance in a boat that followed the royal barge. Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians
- The central feature of the festivity was a huge kettle, many feet in circumference, into which the Indians dropped the most extraordinary variety of food we had ever seen combined. The Story of a Pioneer
- _ "Even the sober Teuton and the rough son of the Bannat could enjoy the few moments that war gives to festivity, and what the next night or morning might bring was not suffered to disturb their sense of" schnapps, "and their supper. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844
- Masks worn on holidays such as Halloween and Mardi Gras signal festivity and license.
- This year I'm getting three times as much festivity by celebrating Canadian Thanksgiving, US Thanksgiving and Christmas.
- We are continually reminded about how vulnerable children are - with every festivity being accompanied by dire warnings.