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Example sentences for "festa"

Lexicographically close words:
fesh; fess; fessa; fesse; fest; festal; festas; feste; festen; fester
  1. The festa natalizie, as it is called in Naples, is celebrated by fairs and bonfires and fireworks.

  2. The time to see Trent to advantage is in the month of June, not only for the sake of the natural beauties of climate and scenery, but because then falls the festa of S.

  3. Many relics of him are shown in the chapel, where a festa is still kept in his honour on March 24.

  4. Yet even here we loiter not, although these garden meads of Jersey are the very choicest spots for the secluded rambles of lovers and the joyous festa of gipsying, especially when the warm south-west blows over the Atlantic.

  5. On its outlying rock is still celebrated on the first Sunday in Lent, by youths and maidens, the ancient festa of Les Brandons, the wild gambols being peculiar to the islet.

  6. A note was sent to Murano asking that the lad call at the hotel; and as the following day chanced to be a festa day the glass works were closed and Giusippe presented himself directly after breakfast.

  7. I could go to-morrow, seƱor; because of the festa I am free from work.

  8. They would have looked like a solemn procession on a festa day had it not been for the bundles and strong-chests they carried.

  9. All this seems to have come to pass at Baia, perhaps, as Boccaccio seems himself to suggest, one day in the woods of Monte Miseno whither they were gone with a gay company holding festa there in the golden spring weather.

  10. That evening two hundred Milanese ladies of high rank were invited to the great ball, or festa per le donne, given in the Sala della palla.

  11. There was a Festa in St. Peter's to-day, and the Pope passed to the Cathedral in state.

  12. Gorgeous processions in the streets, illuminations of windows on festa nights; lighting up of lamps and clustering of flowers before the shrines of saints; all manner of show and display.

  13. I have been told that in your country, on festa days, if a man likes a girl and she likes him he can take her for a walk.

  14. He had been invited to the festa and he had refused to go--almost eagerly he had refused.

  15. To-day, in her pretty festa dress, she looked intended for happiness.

  16. It is the festa of Pancrazio, her cousin.

  17. Now that he had received this letter he understood with what intensity he had been looking forward to this day at the fair, to this last festa of his Sicilian life.

  18. The mere thought of the festa would prevent him from sleeping.

  19. He said to himself that he was going to the festa at Castel Vecchio.

  20. Here the music sounded on festa days before the stone steps that led up to the church of San Giuseppe.

  21. He looked down, suddenly recalled to a reality other than the splendor of the morning, the rapture of this careless festa day.

  22. Once his little brother had fallen dangerously ill on the festa of San Giorgio, the santo patrono of Castel Vecchio.

  23. Such a festa as this was rare in her life, for, dwelling far from the village, she seldom went to any dance or festivity.

  24. To-day they will all play, because it is the festa of the Santo Patrono, but even for him they will not play together.

  25. It reminded him of the festa of Natale, when, as a child, dressed in a long, white garment, he had carried a blazing torch of straw down the steps of the church of San Pancrazio before the canopy that sheltered the Bambino.

  26. The revival of the splendid work of the famous artist was one of the attractions of the festa of celebration.

  27. I found myself at six this morning, where I had found myself at the same hour a year before--in the midst of the rural festa in the Cascine of Florence.

  28. Festa di San Giu,' the natives called it; but the railroad announcements in the stations stated that it was a town fair in honor of San Giuseppe.

  29. It is the Festa della Madonna dei Capri--the Feast of Our Lady of the Goats.

  30. The fortunate morning we saw this unique festa pasturale, I really wanted to make pictures, but mindful of my chilly sunrise experience in Taormina, neither blare of bands nor tinkle of bells could move me until after breakfast.

  31. Is this Festa dei Grilli, as you call it, an annual festival?

  32. Then to-day must be Ascension Day and the Festa dei Grilli.

  33. They will stop there two nights--the one before the festa and the one after.

  34. Here Gerald made arrangements with the band to meet him in a wood on the road to Cadiz at eight in the morning on the day following the termination of the festa at Seville.

  35. She is going with her father to a grand festa at Seville next Wednesday.

  36. To Eskimo Settlements by Reindeer Gathering Cocoanuts Taking the Census in a City Festa in the Italian Quarter The Fighting Men of the Tongs Arrested as the Firing Stops Work for Americans THE BOY WITH THE U.


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