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1. ‘It’s a hell of a job arranging a village fete
2. It was widely reported in the leafier lanes of suburban south London that after the local church’s recent summer fete Miss Jones had sampled the sherry and become extremely eloquent on the subject
3. celebration as well, with a fete held on the village green
4. "He wants to know whether you quoted a hundred and twenty, or a hundred and forty pounds to hire the back field for the village fete
5. "I sort o' told the vicar that you'd organise the fete fer 'im, didn't I?" he said
6. "You sure you're up to this?" I asked Uncle Hobart, worried that, as it had only been a short time since Aunt Martha's funeral, helping to organise the fete for the vicar might prove a bit too much
7. I’d been hard at it since six that morning, setting up tables and stalls for the fete
8. "When the Water Board turned on the supply for the fete, this 'appened
9. Yesterday he returned in triumph, and a great fete was made to honor him
10. The village fete is always well and truly stocked up with napkins, doilies and handkerchiefs which they can sell on the stalls
11. Every summer brings with it lawn fete time in many areas of the country
12. annually there would be no need for any volunteers to labor before, during and after the lawn fete and no worries about repercussions from alcohol consumption
13. The profits for the 2002 lawn fete only totaled $44,000, so maybe my suggestion is to be considered
14. I would also guess that my wife and I are about to be asked to a church fete, and that she will be expected to contribute in some way to one of the stalls
15. In a similar vein, local politicians in Scotland have been criticised this week for suddenly finding convenient excuses not to meet and fete the visiting Dalai Lama
16. fete and was dressed in an oversize purple jeans and a hoody
17. So there I was at the fete looking different and alone because during those
18. Each had made such preparation for the fete as seemed necessary and proper
19. As she came walking in, looking very tired but as composed as ever, she observed that every vestige of the unfortunate fete had disappeared, except a suspicious pucker about the corners of Jo's mouth
20. "The scaffold forms part of the fete
21. From two o'clock till five Franz and Albert followed in the fete, exchanging handfuls of confetti with the other carriages and the pedestrians, who crowded amongst the horses' feet and the carriage wheels without a single accident, a single dispute, or a single fight
22. It seemed like the fete of jack-o'-lanterns
23. "No—it was somewhere—away from here—it was—I do not know—but it appears that this recollection is connected with a lovely sky and some religious fete; mademoiselle was holding flowers in her hand, the interesting boy was chasing a beautiful peacock in a garden, and you, madame, were under the trellis of some arbor
24. there you are like it or lump it he thinks nothing can happen without him knowing he hadnt an idea about my mother till we were engaged otherwise hed never have got me so cheap as he did he was lo times worse himself anyhow begging me to give him a tiny bit cut off my drawers that was the evening coming along Kenilworth square he kissed me in the eye of my glove and I had to take it off asking me questions is it permitted to enquire the shape of my bedroom so I let him keep it as if I forgot it to think of me when I saw him slip it into his pocket of course hes mad on the subject of drawers thats plain to be seen always skeezing at those brazenfaced things on the bicycles with their skirts blowing up to their navels even when Milly and I were out with him at the open air fete that one in the cream muslin standing right against the sun so he could see every atom she had on when he saw me from behind following in the rain I saw him before he saw me however standing at the corner of the Harolds cross road with a new raincoat on him with the muffler in the Zingari colours to show off his complexion and the brown hat looking slyboots as usual what was he doing there where hed no business they can go and get whatever they like from anything at all with a skirt on it and were not to ask any questions but they want to know where were you where are you going I could feel him coming along skulking after me his eyes on my neck he had been keeping away from the house he felt it was getting too warm for him so I halfturned and stopped then he pestered me to say yes till I took off my glove slowly watching him he said my openwork sleeves were too cold for the rain anything for an excuse to put his hand anear me drawers drawers the whole blessed time till I promised to give him the pair off my doll to carry about in his waistcoat pocket O Maria Santisima he did look a big fool dreeping in the rain splendid set of teeth he had made me hungry to look at them and beseeched of me to lift the orange petticoat I had on with the sunray pleats that there was nobody he said hed kneel down in the wet if I didnt so persevering he would too and ruin his new raincoat you never know what freak theyd take alone with you theyre so savage for it if anyone was passing so I lifted them a bit and touched his trousers outside the way I used to Gardner after with my ring hand to keep him from doing worse where it was too public I was dying to find out was he circumcised he was shaking like a jelly all over they want to do everything too quick take all the pleasure out of it and father waiting all the time for his dinner he told me to say I left my purse in the butchers and had to go back for it what a Deceiver then he wrote me that letter with all those words in it how could he have the face to any woman after his company manners making it so awkward after when we met asking me have I offended you with my eyelids down of course he saw I wasnt he had a few brains not like that other fool Henny Doyle he was always breaking or tearing something in the charades I hate an unlucky man and if I knew what it meant of course I had to say no for form sake dont understand you I said and wasnt it natural so it is of course it used to be written up with a picture of a womans on that wall in Gibraltar with that word I couldnt find anywhere only for children seeing it too young then writing every morning a letter sometimes twice a day I liked the way he made love then he knew the way to take a woman when he sent me the 8 big poppies because mine was the 8th then I wrote the night he kissed my heart at Dolphins barn I couldnt describe it simply it makes you feel like nothing on earth but he never knew how to embrace well like
25. "About six o'clock a banquet prepared in the meadow of Monsieur Leigeard brought together the principal personages of the fete
26. In the midst of a description of the last Petersburg fete she addressed her brother:
27. ‘The fete is for tomorrow
28. It was a gay and brilliant fete
29. The most suitable fete the Germans can devise for him is a celebration of Jena and Auerstadt
30. Cosette, who made it her law to please her father, and to whom, moreover, all spectacles were a novelty, accepted this diversion with the light and easy good grace of youth, and did not pout too disdainfully at that flutter of enjoyment called a public fete; so that Jean Valjean was able to believe that he had succeeded, and that no trace of that hideous vision remained
31. "Will you be at Madame Rolandak's fete?" asked Anna, to change the conversation
32. "What's the fete?"
33. The fete at the colonel's lasted a long while
34. ON THE EVE OF THE FETE
35. THE END OF THE FETE
36. Two red-bearded, barefooted Chechens, who had come from beyond the Terek to see the fete, sat on their heels outside the house of a friend, negligently smoking their little pipes and occasionally spitting, watching the villagers and exchanging remarks with one another in their rapid guttural speech
37. Lukashka, after two sleepless nights, had drunk so much at the fete that for the first time in his life his feet would not carry him, and he slept in Yamka's house
38. “The fete is for tomorrow
1. Although the great and the good of this feted land have, in
2. I’d astonished them with my Iliad, they feted me with the best wine I ever drank
3. They piled great heaps in their vats, creating enough weight to press the grapes below… But as I was saying, they loved my poetry and feted me throughout the night
4. After Ignace had been feted enough (several days), we were roused early again and headed south with my tumen in the lead, as usual, and on this particular day my jagun was in the van
5. They surrendered and, as usual, feted Henry and his staff, while we camped around the city for a few days
6. As Johnnie Babcock later put it, a public relations genius, which my father was, clearly relishes the opportunity to crown a prince or king, providing it is he who also is feted
7. Champagne was uncorked; smoke bombs set off; the knight victorious feted
8. What you’ve paid for, unless you were feted, or had the meal at home, is an interpretation
9. On their return they were feted as heroes, invited onto the stage at assembly and became the targets of female adulation
10. His was the fate of many a soldier home from the war; feted in battle and forgotten in peace
11. Before that, he was to be feted in New York, flown to London to
12. They returned to join the group where they were feted with extra beer and toasts for a long and happy life together
13. Feted with lasagna and creamed corn from the cafeteria, Ritter lay against the wall in interview one, fast asleep, the lifestyle of the rich and famous permeating his dreams
14. He was feted like royalty and crowned with a
15. But for now hers was simply one of the swirl of glamorous faces who drifted in and out of Joseph and Magda Goebbels’s stately home, popping the corks from champagne bottles, being feted by their host and hostess, celebrating one another and their youth and their good looks, dancing late into the night, singing, watching films, and talking of racial purity while little Hilde Goebbels lay asleep in a cradle in a darkened room upstairs
16. For decades afterward, Washington crewmembers were feted at the end of each rowing year with a Loyal Shoudy banquet, where each found a purple tie waiting at his plate
17. The marines passed out shots of liquor and feted the airmen
18. In 1954, when the TV program This Is Your Life feted Louie and presented him with a gold watch, a movie camera, a Mercury station wagon, and a thousand dollars, Allen traveled to California to join Louie’s family and friends on stage, wearing a neat bow tie and looking at the floor as he spoke
19. Sir John had been extremely feted in Sulaco, next to the PresidentDictator, a fact which might have accounted for the evident ill-humour General Montero displayed at lunch given on board the Juno just before she was to sail, taking away from Sulaco the President-Dictator and the distinguished foreign guests in his train
20. Coca-Cola’s earnings were rising sharply in the early and mid-1990s, and the company’s aggressively promotional CEO, Roberto Goizueta, was feted on the cover of Fortune
1. Scaliger had noticed that Nostradamus had turned down most of the invitations to fetes and galas thrown by neighborhood Agen women who were hoping to rope this eligible bachelor for their daughters
2. It had been three years since Ed had given up a stressful, high-grade job with longer hours and much better pay at the Australian so that Madeline could go back to work and the two of them could evenly share parenting duties, and he’d never once complained about the intrinsically sedate nature of work at a local paper, cheerfully going off to surf carnivals and fetes and one-hundred-year birthday celebrations at the local nursing home
3. The fetes are veritable pleasure days to the Italians
4. The house of the Duke of Bracciano is one of the most delightful in Rome, the duchess, one of the last heiresses of the Colonnas, does its honors with the most consummate grace, and thus their fetes have a European celebrity
5. Balls, parties, and fetes are over; the Italian opera is in London; the French opera everywhere except in Paris
6. A few days later at one of those enchanting fetes which Helene gave at her country house on the Stone Island, the charming Monsieur de Jobert, a man no longer young, with snow white hair and brilliant black eyes, a Jesuit a robe courte* was presented to her, and in the garden by the light of the illuminations and to the sound of music talked to her for a long time of the love of God, of Christ, of the Sacred Heart, and of the consolations the one true
7. A few days later at one of those enchanting fetes which Hélène gave at her country house on the Stone Island, the charming Monsieur de Jobert, a man no longer young, with snow white hair and brilliant black eyes, a Jesuit à robe courte * was presented to her, and in the garden by the light of the illuminations and to the sound of music talked to her for a long time of the love of God, of Christ, of the Sacred Heart, and of the consolations the one true Catholic religion affords in this world and the next