"Festive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it appeared, was a bit of a poet, and had composed a choice song for this festive occasion, and which was sung in grand chorus, the Right Honourable Colonel himself, heartily joining. The whole ditty was supremely ludicrous. I ...
— Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey • Joseph Cottle
... and women, in their very best apparel, Trooping one behind another, chatted all along the roads; Boys were pitching quoits and coppers; old men in the sun were basking: In the festive smile of Heaven all laid ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 27, January, 1860 • Various
... were afterwards carefully baked in an oven. Then the letters were placed in baked clay envelopes, sealed and addressed, or wrapped in pieces of sacking transfixed by seals. If the ancient people had a festive season which was regarded, like the European Yuletide or the Indian Durga fortnight, as an occasion suitable for the general exchange of expressions of goodwill, the Babylonian streets and highways must have been greatly congested by the postal traffic, ...
— Myths of Babylonia and Assyria • Donald A. Mackenzie
... would not. He always shouted. He would have felt himself falling behind himself on this festive occasion if he had been less boisterous ...
— Mrs. Day's Daughters • Mary E. Mann
... breakfast table, which has a more than usually festive aspect. A faint aroma of truffles perfumes the air, every one is smiling, and through the glass I see, startling sight! the doorkeeper, with his own hands, wiping the handrail of the staircase. ...
— Monsieur, Madame and Bebe, Complete • Gustave Droz
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