The youthful Honorius, attended by the regent Stilicho, came there to celebrate his triumph over Alaric and the Gothic army, defeated at Pollentia.
But the day after the Ascension, the people of Hippo were used to celebrate what they called "the Joy-day," by a traditional good feed and drink.
Thus there fell upon him deep distress and sorrow, and all the wild despair of a foolish and deceived old amorous fool, on the very night when he looked to celebrate his greatest triumph.
The Triumphal Arch, which stands close to the monument, was also erected by Julius Caesar, to celebrate his great victory over Vercingetorix.
One Sunday, as he was going to celebrate the Mass at St. Croix he saw a demoniac chained to a pillar of the church.
We learn from Herrera that, when a Peruvian Inca died, men of skill were appointed to celebrate him in verses, which all the people learned by heart, and sang in public on days of festival.
A minstrel, therefore, who wished to celebrate the early triumphs of his country, could hardly take any but Patricians for his heroes.
There is nothing strange in the supposition that the poet who was employed to celebrate the first great triumph of the Romans over the Greeks might throw his song of exultation into this form.
Russia prepared her saturnalias to celebrate a definite victory.
It was a Friday evening; on the upper floors preparations were being made to celebrate the day consecrated to God in the Old Testament.
They concealed themselves to celebrate the Sabbath.
No other is worthy to celebrate such nuptials as these.
They posted sentinels, collected their herds, and prepared to celebrate their victory with a feast.
Mr. Mortimer was the uncle at whose house Florence Woodburn was visiting, and the party was given in honor of her arrival, and partly to celebrate Mabel Mortimer’s birthday.
The same mystic consciousness is beneath all these passages, and all the others like them: I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
Imagine, however, the purest and most solemn of the discoveries of science, and compare it with the Christmas festival which the Swedish peasant will celebrate in a few days, and tell me which contributes to true emotion, to the moral good.
Do you then celebrate Christmas with so much pomp?
This Kvasir received his precious gifts wonderfully; for he was made by the gods and the Vanir, those two mighty races, to celebrate the peace which was evermore to be between them.
And when evening came there was a wonderful banquet to celebratethe wedding.
The noble AEsir and the heroes who had died in battle upon the earth, and who had come to Valhalla to live happily ever after, gathered on Ida Plain to celebrate the love of all nature for Balder.
To celebrate the event, as soon as I arrived at Nîmes I engaged a calèche to convey me to the Pont du Gard.
The aerial people celebrate them in ships which, moved by celestial breath, glide, their sterns crowned with roses, to the sound of harps, on invisible waves.
As I understand it, the townsmen of some Italian village, when there is a sufficient number of them within reach, club together to celebrate its patron saint, and hire a band and set up a gorgeous altar in a convenient back yard.
They would do more than all the writings of all the historians to celebrate the power and genius of the race that dared thus to correct and complete the work of nature.
They are commemorative monuments, upon which both writer and sculptor have been employed to celebrate the glory of the sovereign.
See for instance the relief in which the Assyrians celebrate their capture of Madaktu, an important city of Susiana, by a sort of triumph (Fig.
The Fulton boy made up his mind to celebrate the day.
Christmas Day came while they were building their first cabin, but they worked all that day, for they were too strict even to celebrate Christmas.
She says every well-ordered wife ought to do the same, so she can celebrate her misfortune from the very first moment of widowhood.
So, Miss, tell my dancing women to prepare for the wedding I intend to celebrate today.
They were written to celebrate the prowess of Giuliano de' Medici, Lorenzo's brother, in a tournament held at Florence in the beginning of the year 1478.
He bids her celebrate in hymns the beauty of her sex, the perfume of the charms that master man.
A final grade in this ascent to spiritual perfection is attained in the closing odes, which celebrate annihilation--the fusion of the mortal in immortal personality, the bliss of beatific vision, Nirvana realized on earth in ecstasy by man.
In large tracts of country the Huguenots had become so numerous that they were no longer able or disposed to conceal their religious sentiments, nor content to celebrate their rites in private or nocturnal assemblies.
They are preparing to celebrate the crossing of the line.
The crew in that ship will celebrate Easter like human beings.
Athos that it was not the practice of the Greek church to celebrate more than one service in any one Church daily.
Mr. Owen went so far as to celebrate the Eucharist after the Anglican ritual in one or two of these churches before a crowd of monks, who could not understand his words, far less the spirit with which our Church approaches the Holy Table.
When we sought our beds, we found that a very noisy party had established themselves below to celebrate the Feast of the Liberation, with supper, speeches, and midnight revelry.
In later days the games became very famous, the Argives or Cleonaeans laying claim to celebrate them.
In 1903 a festival was held to celebrate its thirtieth anniversary.
In the second act, the princes celebratetheir victory in the Duke's castle.
The Duke of York was then with the Spanish army; and Dryden, on the change of times, lived to celebrate him for his gallant opposition to that body, which he here personifies as the British Lion.
Capacity of Deborah as a poetess: paraphrase of her remarkable song composed to celebrate the victory over Sisera.
Capacity of Deborah as a Poetess--Paraphrase of her remarkable Song, composed to celebratethe victory over Sisera.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "celebrate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
