Hanoverian toasts and sentiments were in the ascendant, and there was every appearance that those who remained intended to make a night of it.
Then followed toasts, such a list of toasts as only men inured to tests of strength could take.
Thanks to my Uncle Jack MacKenzie, all my toasts were taken in peppermint, and the picture in my mind of that banquet is as clear to-day as it was when I sat at the table.
There are also a number of selected toasts suitable to all occasions.
The reception at Philadelphia was triumphal; Congress was most courteous; toasts were innumerable.
The toasts are also a very surprising custom, sometimes an uncomfortable one.
In spite of mild deprecation, this feast, with its two toasts to his Majesty and to the memory of Samuel Butler, assumed from the outset the aspect of a solemn sacrament of believers.
The greatest animation and cordiality prevailed, and when toasts were called, Lady Maria gaily gave "The King of Hungary" for hers.
And drinking toasts seems a point of honour with them.
And a fresh bowl is called, and loud toasts are drunk to the success of the expedition.
They dranktoasts to Death, to Queen Poissarde, and to Goddess Guillotine.
Footnote 141: How far superior to the senseless toasts in Righini's and Gazzaniga's versions.
The latter sups with Arlechino, waited upon by Corallina and Tiburzio; he toasts the approving audience, Arlechino and the pretty maids, in German verse!
The woman was hidden from me, but the change in her voice, when by any chance I heard it, convinced me that she had not disdained the toasts drunk by her brothers and nephews.
And just in case you are fishing around for something extra special, serve this smoky Rabbit on oven-browned Bombay ducks, those crunchy flat toasts of East Indian fish.
The same cheese toasts are the basis of a simple milk-cheese soup, with heated milk poured over and a seasoning of salt, pepper, chopped chives, or a dash of nutmeg.
In giving one of the toasts Mr. Field said: "Gentlemen, on Friday evening I had great pleasure in hearing the debate in the House of Commons on the Alabama claims.
Toasted bread formed a favourite addition to English drinks so early as the sixteenth century, and in the cups of sack and punch, brown toasts frequently floated at the top.
From no trim beaus its name it boasts, Grey statesmen or green wits, But from this pell-mell pack of toasts Of old Cats and young Kits.
The following specimen of toasts at a public banquet is taken from that given on the occasion of the opening of London Bridge.
A month earlier, under the first spell of the great project, she would babble about it to anyone she met; and even sent a paragraph to one of the Petersburg papers about the toasts and speeches arranged for her fete.
The great day, the nineteenth of February, we welcomed enthusiastically, and for a long time beforehand drank toasts in its honour.
There were two ways out of the difficulty: either Belshazzar's feast with toasts and speeches, and ninety roubles for the governesses, or a considerable sum of money with the fete only as a matter of form to raise it.
At length the ladies rose, Beatrix throwing a Parthian glance at her duke as she retreated; a fresh bottle and glasses were fetched, and toasts were called.
But still she reigned, at least in one man's opinion, superior over all the little misses that were the toasts of the young lads; and in Esmond's eyes was ever perfectly lovely and young.
She is always chosen early, you know, so that she can be thinking of toasts and getting material for them out of all the events of the year.
There was a shuffling of chairs and she and Betty and the people who had had toasts slipped back to their own particular crowds, leaving the top of the table for the stunt-doers.
She merely told of her hasty departure and wanted Betty to be sure that the supper cards, with the menu and toasts on them, were ready in time.
Then there were more toastsand when the coffee had been served they made the engaged girls run around the table.
Those toasts that I hadn't time to brown properly were getting on my nerves," Christy declared.
In cases where their use is allowable, many of the varioustoasts given under the head of Breakfast Dishes will be relished.
About the end of the dinner the toasts began, with speeches of which naturally I understood not a word; but fortunately "Mino" translated them to me in a few brief words.
The Viennese and Hungarian members gave us a dinner, and it went off in a most gay and friendly fashion: the toasts burst forth, one after the other, in a bright rapid line of fire.
We were unusually merry, and fell into toasts and speeches.
We had another jovial evening, in which the wine-cup was plied freely, but not to an extravagant excess, and the usual toasts and speeches were drunk and made.
The usual toasts were given, and received with all honors.
But we regret to add that with the heat of the day and the enthusiasm of Jack in the cause of science, the mugs were all empty long before the chairman's list of toastshad been gone through.
After proposing toasts to Her Majesty the Queen, to the President of the United States, and to the Prince of Wales, the chairman (Sir S.
This is eaten upon Toastsof white Bread with a little Oil.
Speeches, toastsand a gramophone concert made the evening pass quickly and enjoyably.
After the toasts and speeches came a musical and dramatic programme, punctuated by choice gramophone records and rowdy student choruses.
This tale proves that toasts were put into beverages in those days, or the wag would not have applied the simile to the fair bather; and in the reign of Charles II.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "toasts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
