A chapter might well have been devoted to showing the significance of those curious old institutions, the fairs and market days of the {459} Middle Ages.
Fairs and market days made country life less monotonous by their regular recurrence, and so prevented that emptying of the country into the city which we deprecate in our time.
Two such fairs lasted forty days, and all the goods sold there were duty free.
Its free fairsattracted men of business from all countries.
Sometimes mounted on one of his horses, of which he had several, I would accompany him to various fairs and markets in the neighbourhood, to which he went on his own affairs, or those of his tribe.
I had no horses to ride, but I took pleasure in looking at them; and I had already attended more than one of these fairs: the present was lively enough, indeed horse fairs are seldom dull.
Illustrations are given of several frost fairs on the Thames, and as a trustworthy record this volume should be in every good library.
The numerous Frost Fairs on the Thames are fully described, and illustrated with quaint woodcuts, and several old ballads relating to the subject are reproduced.
The greatest of the German fairs are those of Leipzig, whose display of books is famous all over the world.
In Germany the police authorities are considered the market authorities, and to them in most cases is assigned the duty of establishing new fairs and markets, subject to magisterial decision.
At all events, it may be seen from the data given in Herbert Spencer's Descriptive Sociology that the country had then arrived at the stage of development where fairs might have been recognized as a necessity.
Among modern statutes, one of the chief is the Markets and Fairs Clauses Act 1847, the chief purpose of which was to consolidate previous measures.
Other medieval exhibitions were thefairs held at Leipzig and Nizhni Novgorod in Europe, at Tanta in Egypt, and in 1689 that by the Dutch at Leiden.
It is clear, from the curious record of the Establishment and Expenses of the Household of Percy, 5th earl of Northumberland, that fairs were the chief centres of country traffic even as late as the 16th century.
The great fair of Beaucaire instituted in 1168 has steadily declined since the opening of railway communication, and now ranks with the fairs of ordinary provincial towns.
Still there are some considerable fairs yet remaining.
All the London fairs were abolished as public nuisances before 1855--the last year of the ever famous fair of St Bartholomew; and the fairs of Paris were swept away in the storm of the Revolution.
Landed proprietors may also hold fairs on their estates subject to the sanction of the local authorities; but no private tolls may be levied on commodities brought to such fairs.
Sometimes fairs were granted to towns as a means for enabling them to recover from the effects of war and other disasters.
The great fairs of the empire generally take place in winter; for then the frozen lakes and rivers serve the inhabitants as a safe and rapid means of communication.
Formerly the Kalmucks used to send their horses to the great fairs of Poland, paying a duty of 1.
These fairs often last more than a month, and they are impatiently looked forward to by all the country nobles, whom they enable for a while to breathe as it were the odour of fashionable town life.
This traffic was increasing rapidly; all the merchants of western Asia were beginning to take the Odessa route to make their purchases in the great fairs of Germany.
In Russia, fairs still retain an importance they scarcely any longer possess in our more civilised countries.
And the chief agents of these fairs are the women of America.
With sagacious foresight he overleapt the intermediate stages of publishing and bookselling, and grafted on to the traffic of the mediæval fairs some of the most modern usages of free trade.
There are also two neckties, sold at fairs for six kreutzers apiece.
Then came up those quaint old miracle plays, performed at fairs and festivals, and sometimes even in the cathedrals and churches.
They go about to fairsand deal in asses and in horses, and sometimes they are rich.
They will sit there with their little pot and melt metal in it, and make things that belong to a plough; but the most of them have no trade but to be going to fairs and doing tricks, and having a table for getting money out of you with games.
People heard of the church through the fairs and various other efforts to raise money, came to the service, perhaps out of curiosity at first, became interested, their hearts were touched and they joined.
For many years she was treasurer of the large annual fairs of The Temple, as well as being at the head of a number of large teas and fairs held for the benefit of Samaritan Hospital.
Conwell's idea of the purpose of a church fair and the basic principle on which The Temple fairsare built.
Berlad has manufactures of soap and candles, and some trade in timber and farm-produce, while the annual horse-fairs are visited by dealers from all parts of the country.
Fairs are held at Duns, Lauder, Coldstream and Greenlaw; but the sales of cattle and sheep mostly take place at the auction marts at Reston, Duns and Earlston.
Four fairs are held yearly, the most important being on the 12th of June and the 15th of August.
The extensions and additions made were: In 1882, track to fair ground from First to B avenue, only operated during fairs and amusements.
He has attended the county and state fairs where he has seen the latest inventions in machinery.
Parties and fairs of every description were given.
Sociables and fairs were then held to raise money.
These annual fairs were recognized as something to be aided by all parties, and the various toll bridges notified intending exhibitors that all live stock taken to the fair would be passed free.
He held fairs and sociables to obtain the necessary funds to make his dream a reality, and at his transfer from Marion he left in the church treasury more than $2,000 as a nucleus for the new church building.
Let us wander down the Rhine and stop at friendly fairsalong the way.
He rents the pitches at all the fairs before the season begins; and the Stingo crowd, who must take what he gives, he puts in the worst places.
The fact that "Japhra's Gentleman" was in the way of becoming a rival attraction to his own fame among the crowds that flocked to the fairs sharpened his spleen.
The number of his flocks and of his herds increased greatly, and he was in the habit of attending the fairs upon the Borders, to dispose of them.
It is reduced to this in the South, that the Whites have their Fairs and the Negroes have theirs separately.
The time when I was in the South was one of fairs and carnivals.
The town is first mentioned in 1223, when William de Longespee leased the benefit of the markets, fairs and hundred of Cheltenham to the men of the town for three years; the lease was renewed by Henry III.
Fairs are now held on the 4th of May and the 29th of October under the original grants.
A charter of John the Scot, earl of Chester, mentions fairs at the feasts of the Nativity of St John Baptist and St Michael.
In Cheadle two fairs of ancient origin are held annually.
Three days' fairswere granted to the abbots in 1129 for the feast of St Peter ad Vincula by Henry III.
For many centuries the rights claimed by the abbot in connexion with the fairsgave rise to constant friction with the civic authorities, which lasted until, in the reign of Henry VIII.
The fairs have been credited with much of the mischief, and undoubtedly they are productive of evil; but if they were abolished, the average would in all probability remain about the same.
There are the fairs and feasts, and a fair is the most melancholy of sights.
The growing trade needed a regular market and on this site subsequently were held the annual fairs in June, the first recorded being held in 1680.
He asked of the consuls likewise the privilege of holdingfairs upon his private estate.
But some big fairs are held away from any large town, such as the big sheep fair at Weyhill, in Hampshire.
Some of these fairs are held in big towns, such as Lincoln and Carlisle.
Many such fairs are still held in every county and they connect the present day very closely with the life of bygone days.
The great fairsof the town were particularly famed, and, during fair-time, many persons crossed over from Zealand.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fairs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
