A life of hunting and song, and simple repasts in the open air, accompanied with witty talk; and at the same time a life full to the brim with the dreamy happiness of love.
Those who could afford it ate rich and heavy dishes; the repasts would often last an inordinate time, and no regard whatever was paid to the minor decencies of life.
These repasts were served at the east side of the room, and his kneeling-cushion placed before them.
I heard more picturesque and pyrotechnic wit at one luncheon in Philadelphia than at any two repasts outside it.
There is less, or certainly no more danger in having the sexes unite at the repasts of knowledge, than, as Plautus bluntly puts it, having he wits and she wits recline at the repasts of fashion.
Louisa, will your repastsbe as agreeable to you on porcelain plates as on gold and silver?
Guests and strange faces always bring etiquette with them, and that renders ourrepasts formal and unpleasant.
She became the adored heroine of an apparently endless serial to be entitled The Hazards of Clifford Armytage, in which the hero had tragically little to do but sit upon a bench and wait while tempting repasts were served.
And each day, as the little hoard was diminished by even those slender repasts at the drug store, he ran his film of the Gashwiler dining room in action.
And, when writing of this wine, it is altogether impossible to omit a reference to those tete-a-tete repasts en cabinet particulier, of which it is the indispensable adjunct.
The royal repasts at La Muette, Marly, and Choissy were, however, enlivened with wine from the Champagne; for we find Bertin du Rocheret in 1738 despatching thirty pieces of the still wine to M.
Frequent sacred repastsmaintained a spirit of fellowship among the mystics of Cybele, Mithra or the Baals,[33] and a daily service unceasingly revived the faith of the Isis worshipers.
On sacred repasts where fish was eaten see Mnaseas, fragment 32 (Fragm.
Maybe, like the votaries of Sabazius, they believed that the blessed ones were permitted to participate with Hermes Psychopompos in a great celestial feast, for which they were prepared by the sacred repasts of the mysteries.
Boulanger did not cherish flattering recollections of General Jackson's taste, but Mr. Van Buren used to compliment his savory repasts and enjoy artistic cheer.
Their repasts were among the sweetest moments of the infant community.
It is probable that from that time, in the commonrepasts of the sect, there was established some custom which was derived from the discourse so badly received by the men of Capernaum.
XXIX-94] We are indebted to the learned Monteil for the following details relative to the public repasts of Louis XIV.
XXXIV-5] It must have constituted very poor fare, for the Greeks were remarkable for a formidable appetite, and their repasts were prolonged indefinitely.
No one could eat alone; a certain number of families met together to take their repasts in common.
XXIII-5] Those nations never failed consecrating their repasts by filling salt-cellars, near to the vase in which they presented the gods with the first portion of meat and fruit.
The heroes of Homer prepared their repastswith their own hands,--and what repasts, gods of taste!
The gudgeon--thought excellent by every one, but which no one mentions--appeared with honour in the most magnificent repasts at Athens.
XXIX-51] Their custom of two repasts would be sufficiently proved by the fact that, on fast days, they took food only in the evening.
XXX-4] The extreme simplicity of the greater part of the Biblical repasts ought not to induce us to suppose that the Jews were entire strangers to the inspirations of good cheer.
I know very well, having been invited to one of them to fill a vacant place, when I saw at once that these repasts are very superior to the common run of entertainments for which the humbler sort of J.
The king usually had his meals with his wives, and during the repasts he examined them with great attention, feasting his eyes on their beauty.
When he seasoned them with some morsels of pork, substituting ship biscuit for bread, his repasts were fit for an admiral.
All such repastsmust have been sacred, but we do not know if they included the Eucharistic rite.
Twice a day they partook of elaborate repasts at which the tables were decked with embroidered cloths and vessels of gold and silver.
Jesus might share the repasts of his disciples without being subject to the calls of thirst or hunger; and his virgin purity was never sullied by the involuntary stains of sensual concupiscence.
We have had to treat elsewhere of the rules and regulations of the repastsunder the Merovingian and Carlovingian kings.
The Bishops of Paris were required to give two very sumptuous repasts to their chapters at the feasts of St. Eloi and St. Paul.
Then there was Doctor Billard, and Father Couillere, mayor of the commune, at whose house they had repasts that lasted for six hours.
At these repasts everybody was covered; it would have been a want of respect, of which you would have been immediately informed, if you had not kept your hat on your head.
At length, at the moment when the people, after their triumphs and festive repasts in the open streets, were looking about for a master, it was affirmed that a vessel had left the Hague, bearing Charles II.
Entertainment followed entertainment, all a mixture of repasts and vaudeville shows in whose preparation the successive hosts vied with each other to attain perfection.
The luxurious repasts served to his retainers were abolished and all alike found themselves forced to restrict their appetites to the dainties they could purchase with the table allowance accorded them.
They had this custom in common with the Christians of Italy, where these kinds of repasts were forbidden by the Council of Laodicea, which was held in the fourth century.
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