"Festival" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... one reason for this prosperity which she fully realized. Thanksgiving was not far distant, and on that happy New England festival, the school had a holiday ...
— Miss Ashton's New Pupil - A School Girl's Story • Mrs. S. S. Robbins
... Melbourne Town Hall. Hardly a night passes without a concert of some kind is going on. As in theatrical matters, Melbourne takes the lead in all things musical. Last Christmas-week it was actually so ambitious as to get up a Musical Festival. The Town Hall organ is excellent. A good concert will always draw well. Ketten—who was not a marvel—had crowded houses night after night, with no other attraction but his pianoforte. Wilheling, who really deserved all the praise he ...
— Town Life in Australia - 1883 • R. E. N. (Richard) Twopeny
... life, deserves a still more, particular notice. His infancy we pass over; but from the period at which he did not enter into small clothes, he might be seen every Sunday morning, or on some important festival, issuing from his father's mansion, with a piece of old cloth tied about him from the middle to the knees, leaving a pair of legs visible, that were mottled over with characters which would, if found on an Egyptian pillar, put an antiquary to the necessity of ...
— Phelim O'toole's Courtship and Other Stories • William Carleton
... festival which the king gave, attended by knights and counts, he sent a pipit [32] to the girl, and ordered her to ...
— Filipino Popular Tales • Dean S. Fansler
... Deacon Spear's at length; but only Mrs. Spear was at home. She was very deaf, but could explain that the family had taken all their syrup to the annual festival. ...
— The Last of the Peterkins - With Others of Their Kin • Lucretia P. Hale
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