In the four compartments of the margin: "Take heed that your heart be not overwhelmed with feasting and drunkenness.
Through feastingmany have died, but he that eateth measurably prolongeth life.
Sheep-shearing was thus celebrated in ancient times with feasting and rustic pastimes; at present, excepting a supper at the conclusion of the sheep-shearing, we have few remains of the older custom.
Then Aegir went over Bifrost, the rainbow bridge, to Asgard, where they had such a gay party and such feasting that he was sorry when the time came to go home; but at last he said good-by to Father Odin and the rest of the Aesir.
The wedding took place at Asgard, and when the feasting was over, Skadi and Niord went to dwell in his home by the sea.
There was no need of a guide to the house where the feasting was in progress.
The hand-washing and hymn-singing and feasting on roast lamb in bitter sauce, was over for another twelvemonth.
And thus snubbing, and being snubbed, dressing and dancing and feasting and flirting, did she soar higher and higher in her butterfly career.
There he and his companions were entertained in goodly fashion, feasting every day and holding pious disputations.
Bells were rung, bonfires blazed, and after a great procession through the streets there was feasting at the Townhall.
Yet in spite of all their feasting and ceremonies Smith scarcely believed in the friendship of the Indians, and no one was more surprised than himself when he at length reached Jamestown in safety.
As to a poor man that is kept hungry all the week, a bare liberty of feasting with his landlord on the Lord's day, would satisfy him without a law to constrain him to it; so is it here with a hungry soul.
Many that are scrupulous of receiving it in any save a feasting gesture, are too little careful and scrupulous of receiving it in any save a feastingframe of mind.
On the banks of a picturesque stream called the San Joaquim the party halted a few days to recruit themselves and animals, feasting the while on the fattest of venison and other game.
There are many holidays in Mexico, when the tiresome schools are closed and both big folks and little give themselves up to feasting and dancing.
There will be feasting in the big farmhouses now, because there will be plenty of tender wild ducks to roast, and the cellars are full of the vegetables raised in the gardens.
Don't you know rightly when you are not in it, herself will be feasting and entertaining and going on with every diversion?
They consider the banquets, the fine array, the wine-drinking and the feasting occasioned thereby, both costly and unnecessary.
The birds were nearly all gone--the thrushes alone were feasting on the scarlet berries.
Moving, over the Rhine in every direction were brightly lighted steamboats laden with happy people, feasting and singing.
Then Windekind called his allies together, and the siege of the feasting company began.
Few of these gaudily painted ones have the chance to die naturally, for both birds and squirrels prey upon them, tearing away the delicate wings, and feasting on the big pulpy bodies.
They did not know the humming-birds were feasting on small insects attracted by the sweets, quite as often as on honey, for they never had examined closely.
I photographed a free one feasting on the sweets of petunias in a flower bed at the Cabin, on the seventh of October.
A scene of ravenous feasting followed, in which the French, released from durance, were summoned to share.
The old man claimed as his share the portion of the head attached to the carcase, and bones and all were eaten with that additional relish which the sensation of feasting on his enemy would naturally produce.
Feasting at funerals in past time was by no means uncommon in Great Britain, and perhaps still lingers in some of the remoter parts of the country.
After feasting in this manner a short time, I asked my guide what was the meaning of the spacious building which I saw.
The boys were highly delighted at this, and they went to work cooking and feasting upon the lady's sweet cakes, while the artillery of the contending armies was thundering in their ears, dealing out death and destruction on every hand.
So it seemed, for Mr Jabez was feasting away with great gusto, and eating two of everything to my one.
This feast and feasting is kept up until the Catholic priest arrives to perform the funeral rites.
The evil spirit being thus effectually banished, the mourning gradually subsides, blending into succeeding scenes of feasting and refreshment.
A prominent feature of all ceremonies, either funeral or religious, consists of feasting accompanied with music and dancing.
If a heart that is feasting can pity a hungry, starving one then think of me!
But the hour of feasting passed agreeably enough, and when the ladies arose to retire, the young gentleman, who seldom took wine, asked the privilege of going with them.
Christmas, for example, had not only been set apart for sacred observance, but had become a time of feasting and revelry.
To the same effect, Rapin writes: 'All historians unanimously agree, he spent whole days and nights in feasting and carousing.
Smollett attributes his immediate end to over-eating at this banquet, at the same time asserting that he was particularly addicted to feasting and drinking, which he indulged to abominable excess.
They neglected their duties and thought only of feasting and making themselves comfortable.
And he saw that the Danes were not expecting to be attacked by the English people, so that, instead of keeping watch, they were feasting and drinking and playing all their time.
If you cannot walk after a few days, they must carry you, and they will be ready to do so, as they owe their feasting to you.
There was great rejoicing when this meat was brought into camp, and the Arabs and their followers feasting luxuriously forgot their toils and sufferings.
