He takes another hour and a half of sleep, and, after partaking of a light meal, "gets into his collar" until four in the afternoon.
It is true I have not heard whether any of my guests have suffered any ill-effects from partaking of my hospitality, but I suppose if any of them had died or been seized with violent symptoms, the fact would have been notified to me.
We all found comfortable quarters in the count's house in Treviso, where, after partaking of some refreshments, the guests retired to rest.
I was amused at this, for I was not in a position to be over-fastidious, and, after partaking of some dinner at the inn, I went about the town.
We expected to have a very dull supper, but the witty sayings of that gentleman enlivened us and you cannot imagine of what follies we were guilty after partaking of some champagne punch.
We got up, and, after partaking of some breakfast, we went to hear mass.
Here the apostle puts them in mind of their partaking of the body and blood of Christ in the sacred mysteries, and becoming thereby one mystical body with Christ.
And the bread which we break, is it not the partaking of the body of the Lord?
They have been described as partaking at once of those of a diplomatist, a magistrate, a legal adviser and an administrator.
By partakingof Thy Holy Mysteries, O Christ, may I be estranged from passions, joined to Thy Grace, and confirmed in life.
The third day arrived, and at dawn, after partaking of the usual breakfast of raw antelope or other game, they started again on their march.
And so you ought not reject life, grace, and salvation promised by God, because He has laid it down for you in the partaking of bread and wine in His sacrament, which is the channel by and through which He conveys it to your soul.
Is it much different--to take up another point--with our partaking of the Lord's Supper?
The becoming conscious of difference is an essential moment, but the principles here have in part the character of physical Being, and though partaking also of ideal Being, this form is not yet thought-form.
This moved Pythagoras to assert unity to be the principle of things, because, through partaking of it, each is called one.
The two stages have here been given, the first of which is the stage of devotion, of worship, such as that reached in partaking of the Communion.
He had been stung dreadfully in the head and in the face; the bees had settled in handfuls in his hair; but, after partaking of a cup of warm tea and some food, he was as cheerful as if he had never travelled a mile.
There stood the keeper himself, his wife at his side, partaking the peril; and the warders, whom he had summoned to the rescue.
The Italian academies have been often represented as partaking in the alleged decline of literary spirit during the first part of the seventeenth century.
The peddler rubbed his eyes, and seeing and smelling all these evidences of pandemonium, concluded he had died, and was now partaking of his final doom.
The Canary-bird is sometimes, and with success, matched with the linnet or the goldfinch; and the produce is a beautiful bird, partaking of the talents and plumage of both.
The hospitality of the ladies offered Lovel a breakfast more suited to modern taste, and while he was engaged in partaking of it, he was assailed by indirect inquiries concerning the manner in which he had passed the night.
Captain Eaton and his party finding it impossible to retake their prisoner, after listening to the sermon of Mr. Ward, and partaking of some bodily refreshment, took their leave of the settlers of Pentucket, and departed for Boston.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "partaking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
