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festivity
1. cooking and the cheerful sounds of festivity
2. which the festivity was due
3. A man of a large revenue, whatever may be his profession, thinks he ought to live like other men of large revenues; and to spend a great part of his time in festivity, in vanity, and in dissipation
4. After the harvest, owners would bring their bulls to fight as a gesture of solidarity and festivity
5. But right when the party started Elena grabbed the two brothers by their shoulders and made them follow her far from the festivity
6. they had dedicated the place of their festivity to be one of prayer
7. and another day of the scheduled festivity was starting
8. 20 These they registered as sacred on a pillar when they had dedicated the place of their festivity to be one of prayer
9. The Summer Solstice celebration was a festivity commemorated the third week of July
10. I smile as I scrub the festivity from my body, the jasmine oil from my hair, and the tears from my face
11. Situations like a town festivity, the holiday ritual, common holidays, immerged in the comforting repetitiveness of common places, of dinners with the usual friends at the usual restaurants where they recognize you and you feel "at home"
12. And when he came up to the back door, he called out one of the servants and inquired as to the meaning of all this festivity
13. She took charge of a crew of carpenters, locksmiths, and masons, who filled in the cracks in the floor, put doors and windows back on their hinges, repaired the furniture, and white-washed the walls inside and out, so that three months after her arrival one breathed once more the atmosphere of youth and festivity that had existed during the days of the pianola
14. The bidding was always brisk for the exotic goods from other regions, an air of festivity usually followed the traders arrival, not being affiliated to any tribe or political leaning the traders, as far back as anyone remembered were allowed to travel everywhere without hindrance and any information they divulged about places or people usually cost the enquirer a high price
15. He looked at Paul with festivity and tugged on the bottom of
16. Festivity of any sort was far from his mind
17. beers and jovial festivity was the order of the trip
18. festivity of Christmas and me to research a new market and an
19. She has no choice but to join in the festivity
20. If your heart is filled with love for God then the whole world is a place for joy to you, a place of festivity and jubilance
21. Raymond was not feared and Tania was in fact our boss but when he was with us, the salon had an air of festivity and the smiles of both the clients and personnel multiplied a hundredfold
22. The park, which less than twelve hours ago had been a scene of festivity and love, now looked like the aftermath of a plane crash
23. A peculiar circumstance attracted his attention: there seemed to be some kind of festivity going on, there were crowds of gaily dressed townspeople, peasant women, their husbands, and riff-raff of all sorts, all singing and all more or less drunk
24. "There is some sort of festivity being prepared at that
25. Everything tends to show that his convelescence will be brief; and who knows even if at our next village festivity we shall not see our good Hippolyte figuring in the bacchic dance in the midst of a chorus of joyous boon-companions, and thus proving to all eyes by his verve and his capers his complete cure? Honour, then, to the generous savants! Honour to those indefatigable spirits who consecrate their vigils to the amelioration or to the alleviation of their kind! Honour, thrice honour! Is it not time to cry that the blind shall see, the deaf hear, the lame walk? But that which fanaticism formerly promised to its elect, science now accomplishes for all men
26. the elder Dantes, who, at the commencement of the repast, had commented upon the silence This prospect of fresh festivity redoubled the hilarity of the guests to such a degree, that that prevailed, now found it difficult, amid the general din of voices, to obtain a moment's tranquillity in which to drink to the health and prosperity of the bride and bride-groom
27. During the days of his prosperity, not a festivity took place without himself and wife being among the spectators
28. Albert, however, hoped to indemnify himself for all these slights and indifferences during the Carnival, knowing full well that among the different states and kingdoms in which this festivity is celebrated, Rome is the spot where even the
29. CROFTON: This is indeed a festivity
30. Fat Betty Baxter, baker of special buns for every town festivity, shrewd questioner at parish guild meetings, was dead, her business awkwardly shared out between four squabbling daughters
31. His evenings he devoted to gambling and to calls in a spirit of generous festivity upon the peyne d'oro girls in the more remote side-streets of the town
32. This little festivity, which might have turned out dangerous to the telegraphist's life, enabled him in the end to send his warning to Sulaco
33. next village festivity we shall not see our good Hippolyte figuring in the bacchic dance in the midst of a chorus of joyous booncompanions, and thus proving to all eyes by his verve and his capers his complete cure? Honour, then, to the generous savants! Honour to those indefatigable spirits who consecrate their vigils to the amelioration or to the alleviation of their kind! Honour, thrice honour! Is it not time to cry that the blind shall see, the deaf hear, the lame walk? But that which fanaticism formerly promised to its elect, science now accomplishes for all men
34. "In the common walks of life, with what delightful emotions does the youthful mind look forward to some anticipated scene of festivity! Imagination is busy sketching rose-tinted pictures of joy
35. ‘There is some sort of festivity being prepared at that …
36. “You must not look for any dancing or festivity or entertainment of guests, for our gala times are still in the air
37. There was another gentleman present who was, I fancied, of no special rank or family, and who, like me, had simply turned up at this family festivity
38. But one could see that he was in no mood for merrymaking and family festivity; whenever he withdrew into a corner he left off smiling and knitted his bushy black brows
39. In addition to this individual who assisted in this way at our host's family festivity (he had five fat, well-fed boys), I was attracted, too, by another gentleman
40. Far from us be such a prospect, and may the present festivity leave nothing but a peaceful recollection, like the recollection of the Grand Duke Constantine, which was present here (in 1857) at the launching of the ship Quirinal, and may the friendship of France and of Russia make these two nations the guardians of peace
41. ” There had been no great festivity as yet, but I felt assured that things would go splendidly when once we had begun drinking tumblers of the potion that was now in course of preparation
42. Paget, for example, that we are indebted for the introduction of that purely American festivity, “The Ladies’ Luncheon