"Feast day" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... mixing bowls and well-wrought double beakers, and others again go for water to the well, and return with it right speedily. For the wooers will not long be out of the hall but will return very early, for it is a feast day, yea ...
— DONE INTO ENGLISH PROSE • S. H. BUTCHER, M.A.
... and then a word of French, that it is no wonder that Jules grew bewildered in trying to follow her. She had to begin again at the beginning, and speak very slowly, in order to make him understand that it was a feast day of some kind, and that he, Jules, was invited to some sort of a strange, wonderful entertainment in Monsieur Greville's garden. "But Brossard is away from home," said Jules, "and there is no one to watch the goats, and keep them ...
— The Gate of the Giant Scissors • Annie Fellows Johnston
... Must the feast day Be the least day, Robbed of all the things we'd seek? Must our proud day Be a shroud day With rehearsals ...
— More Toasts • Marion Dix Mosher
... feast day of the year on the Island, a beautiful bright sunny June day. On a plateau the men played at the hurley and putting the stone; and there was a tug of war for married men and single, and after that for the women, amid much jollity and laughter. Above ...
— An Isle in the Water • Katharine Tynan
... are you standing there for, stupid?' cried his wife. 'Take up the hare. A nice fat hare is a dinner for a feast day.' ...
— The Violet Fairy Book • Various
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