"Festive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... right hand lead Sometimes through the yellow mead, Where Joy and white-robed Peace resort And Venus keeps her festive court: Where Mirth and Youth each evening meet, And lightly trip with nimble feet, Nodding their lily-crowned heads; Where Laughter rose-lip'd ...
— A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century • Henry A. Beers
... But, light of my soul, have you any idea how dashed difficult it is to get beaten by your festive parent at golf?" ...
— Indiscretions of Archie • P. G. Wodehouse
... to thee, On the glad anniversary Of this, thy festive day; Thy daughters, daughters not of earth, But bound by cords of Heavenly birth, Their love ...
— Mountain idylls, and Other Poems • Alfred Castner King
... scarlet dyes Through fleecy rifts of snowy cloud, And night puts on her ebon shroud, And stars look out of wintry skies: Still spacious halls with revels ring Where chivalry with beauty vies, And red-wine flows at festive board. But oh! for the cove where the redbirds sing By the crystal wave of the mossy spring, And a draught ...
— The Loom of Life • Cotton Noe
... among the farmers of Lancaster County is a festive occasion, the most popular form of dissipation known, bringing the whole population forth as in some regions they turn out to ...
— Tillie: A Mennonite Maid - A Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch • Helen Reimensnyder Martin
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