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Sentence Examples In contrast, Mycenaean feasting on the Greek mainland seems to have arisen from elite customs aimed at exclusion. Scraps of fish had fallen to the bottom, and stingrays, which are natural bottom feeders were absolutely feasting on them. The Greek Easter is the biggest national holiday and explodes with fireworks and feasting. Weddings and other festive occasions are observed with much enthusiasm and are often celebrated with feasting, and sometimes with nautch girls. Even as the telecoms unspool their fiber, aggressive cable players are already feasting. The Table is a place of feasting and refreshment, but also a place of mystery tinged with reverent fear. If the environmental accord were a bull, you would be feasting on barbecued prairie oysters. Further evidence for ceremonial feasting is indicated by the presence of quantities of cattle and caprine bones in funerary contexts. On the canopy above, there are Capuchin monkeys racing across the branches, and a troupe of squirrel monkeys, also feasting on ants. There's a lantern procession, carols and much feasting on stargazy pie with pilchard heads poking through the piecrust. The name-giving ceremony is a formal occasion celebrated by feasting and drinking. In a heroic society, the communal aspect of the feasting was an appropriate means of rewarding the prowess of the individual warriors. Women especially would just love to impress their spouse by feasting them with the tasty dishes. Our last night was spent feasting on stuffed peppers prepared by a Turkish chef who had trained in Germany. In the summer they have parties on each allotment in turn, feasting on barbecues and getting sloshed on homemade wines. Three teenage schoolgirls were feasting on deep-fried chicken and chips and looked on, admiring the grace and agility of the couples. He walked straight past his expectant friend, dipped his good hand into one of his pockets and sat down, feasting on a large slab of cheese. There, in the clearing, a wolf was feasting on a rabbit it had brought down. On the canopy above, there are monkeys racing across the branches, and a troupe of squirrel monkeys, also feasting on ants. The assistant peered through the window and saw a group of people feasting, drinking, and reveling. Show More Sentences She saw people feasting, dancing, and making merry, exactly as she expected. In the city they spend their days feasting, gaming, love-making and partaking of beautiful music. They are either feasting on escapes of immature farmed fish or on the uneaten feed pellets that accumulate in the water below the cages. Elements of traditional culture, such as competitive feasting and the harvest of first fruits, have been incorporated into church calendars. The rat had entered the under-sink cabinet from below, through the open space around the drainpipe, and had been feasting on our garbage. When the feasts start the guests are expected not to stand up during the feasting because this is considered a discourtesy to the host. But in the developed, Western world, the feasting periods are no longer interspersed with famines. Mantis shrimp skulked liked cats under the jetty, one feasting on a juvenile pufferfish that had strayed too close to its spearing claws. By the same token, neglecting to share a feast indicated an absence of ties, and exclusion from the feasting community meant rejection. It is kind of hard to get wacky enjoyment out of flesh feasting sharks, slithery snakes, and jaw chomping gators. Dressed in togas, crowned with laurel wreaths, they re-enacted ancient ceremonies, of which feasting was one. Communal feasting is central to marking birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, achievements, significant purchases, and major public holidays. At the festival, the people were revelling, drinking beer and wine and feasting on the sacrifices. Possibly these cups were used in the performance of cult, such as feasting by the worshippers and offering of libations to the deities. Larders are stocked up for the winter months ahead and feasting is taken seriously in a country of committed gastronomes. The adults can enjoy their feasting, drinking, the beach and sun while the children romp in the waters within eyesight. When they beached the ships, they saw flocks of sheep and goats and they killed them for feasting. Jamaican rice and peas, Spanish paella and Creole jambalaya are foods for feasting. There were also winged salamanders feasting on flying insects such as flies and mosquitoes. She sprang on the deer the moment that Temer pulled back and started feasting on some of the choice meat. Show More Sentences Every community has a saint's day, and the major seasonal holidays are occasions for family and community feasting. In this respect, aspects of the Homeric terminology that relate to feasting are particularly interesting. This had been, after all, originally their festival of light and of feasting, which they called Saturnalia, after Saturn, father of Pluto. On the basis of available archaeological evidence, Chalcolithic feasting appears to have been conducted at a communal level. Shy leaves hide under their brethren as the icy chill dives and chases each one like a predator feasting on a school of fish. Like jackals around a tiger kill, small flies hovered around the feasting mantis, even daring to settle on its grotesque pea-like eyes. After their adventure, the piglets will be relaxing at Divernagh and feasting on pig meal and scraps until they are re-housed. These observations come from feasting on the mixed thali, a round stainless steel tray holding five bowls, each filled with its own treat. They take pleasure in tall ceilings, which conjure images of banquets and feasting, and waiters with aprons wrapped around their bellies. Among Indo-Fijians, feasting is associated with marriages and religious festivals. In the spring we have a strawberry fest with members picking for free, feasting with friends, and touring the farm. Therefore, a distinction between formal palace-centered ceremonial processions and feasting must be preserved. He was dominating the center ruck contests and his on-ballers were feasting on the results. While it's hard or impossible for the whole ummah to meet on the same feasting day, it's not hard for the people of one country to do so. She refused to say whether she has received complaints that firms are feasting at the city trough. The study of feasting on the Greek mainland during the Middle and Late Bronze Age provides insights into the nature of Mycenaean society. Borgna grapples with issues of social structure and organization in detail in her comparative study of Minoan and Mycenaean traditions of feasting. The setting sun cast elongated shadows over the flat landscape and welcomed blood-sucking insects to an evening of feasting around the small watering hole. He makes sure the feasting and dancing and joyfulness continue. Among Algonquians, bear hunts were often associated with fasting, ritual, and feasting cycles timed to varying points of preparation, activation, and completion of the hunt. Show More Sentences Unfortunately, as Jackson sees it, most of the sharks were feasting on drek. The arbours were wooden dining halls, surrounded by a hedge and ditch with an elaborate entrance, that were used as places of entertainment and feasting. Rather than be instructional or cautionary, the show turns its subjects into feasting zoo objects for audiences to gawk at. Upon entering, I spot Sevigny seated in the back, feasting on a plate of oysters, a goat cheese salad, and iced tea. In Lakonia, for example, only the Vapheio tholos contained any feasting equipment, and not in large quantity, although the effects of robbing must be taken into account. George had to go inside to take a phone call so I sat feasting my eyes on the beauty of the surroundings. Probably in October, the Pilgrims met their Wampanoag neighbors for three days of feasting on wildfowl and venison. A herald announces feasting in honour of Othello's marriage. Such individuals-aggrandizers-may have been able to enhance their influence through ritual and feasting associated with trade and mortuary ceremonialism. Besides feasting on goodies such as sausages, dog biscuits and chews, the guests will play games, such as tug the lead, chase the ball and musical dogs. I'm lucky, for I've got an invite to a bash in the Drill Hall where I spend the night dancing, drinking and feasting on mutton soup, pies and sandwiches. It's feast or famine at golf clubs and we're feasting at the moment. After they all went through the lines and had loaded their plates with a somewhat continental breakfast, everyone was feasting quickly, grateful for the relief from fast food. Nor can we dismiss as trivial the part that gastronomy and other social conventions associated with feasting play in the civilizing of the human animal. In Bettina Arnold's article on feasting among the Celts, she seeks parallels for the well-documented consumption of wealth in the Hallstatt period in later Irish sources. And instead of feasting on salmon and camas, as their ancestors might have done, they had dinner at a Chinese restaurant. In a faraway forest in a faraway land live Meathook and his band of carnivorous dragons, who love feasting on tasty knights and princesses. Songbirds hoover up the feed too, as well as feasting on seeds, like white millet, that grow in the gamecrops. We had fine clothes, and feasting, and drum-beating, and fireworks let off in our village. It was a grand tamasha! At the end of the training, a graduation ceremony takes place where all the local sangoma come together for feasting and dancing. Show More Sentences Owing to the combination of betting, feasting, and drinking, parish festivals built up a reputation for their rowdiness. After a year of feasting at Din Eidyn, now Edinburgh, they attacked Catraeth, which is usually identified with Catterick, North Yorkshire. Many a scholar, making wings of candlewicks to flap away old darkness, monked his life to fasting long while feasting upon new light. These events featured jousting, dancing, and feasting, and in some cases attending knights assumed the identities of Arthur's entourage. There's a honey buzzard as big as an eagle feasting on a huge bees' honeycomb just 50 metres away. Away from the Brussels bear-pit, Denbigh residents enjoyed visits from a Waxwing flock feasting on cotoneaster berries. Perhaps the Purple Emperor is feasting, as Morris says, upon a mass of putrid carrion at the base of an oak tree. Pacino is Lefty Ruggiero, a low-life small-timer, who has a fascination for the sort of wildlife videos that show lions feasting on wildebeeste. We were feasting, forkless, eating ethnically, teaching them to lap up dahl puree and curried mango with soft shreds of steaming roti. The cathedral is known for a Cusco School painting of the Last Supper depicting Jesus and the twelve apostles feasting on guinea pig, a traditional Andean delicacy. The priests performed public ceremonies that incorporated feasting, bloodletting, incense burning, music, ritual dance, and, on certain occasions, human sacrifice. In ancient times, our forebears would celebrate the winter solstice with fires and feasting and prayed they had enough food in stock to last them until spring. Eating and feasting were specifically excluded from symbel, and no alcohol was set aside for the gods or other deities in the form of a sacrifice. Dancing, fiddling, and feasting at Christmas and on Mardi-gras, before Lent, and feasting at or after Easter, are among their amusements or indulgences. After a number of years, when the girls had reached a marriageable age, they would perform labour service for the Queen Mother, ending with dancing and feasting. They have been documented opportunistically feeding near fish hatcheries in Southeast Alaska, feasting on salmon fry released from the hatcheries. His throne is secure, his knights have proven themselves through a series of quests, Sir Lancelot and Sir Tristan have arrived and the court is feasting. Feasting and sharing food are an important feature of traditional agricultural and religious rites. Feasting scenes appear in the frescoes of Crete and the islands, and the Mycenaeans adapt this tradition for representation in their palaces. Feasting can be either an inclusive or an exclusive activity, as we know from many sources from classical antiquity and modern ethnography. Show More Sentences Like JM Coetzee's Disgrace, the novel which pipped it to the prize, Fasting, Feasting has a storyline which revolves around parents and daughters. Feasting upon a king crab for lunch was essential, because the last night was to be spent in the bitter extremities of the Kirkenes Snow Hotel. Feasting has long been acknowledged as an integral part of Epipaleolithic and early Neolithic societies. Examples from Classical Literature Where he broke it, it was oozing a soupy liquid and was full of tiny maggots in a delirium of feasting. The wolves which had been feasting on these carcasses were very fat, and so gentle that one of them was killed with a spontoon. We are not feasting on baked swans, peacock tongues and drinking our pearls. He could not know that I was satiating myself with a miser's delights, feasting my eyes upon my own. For the present he swept the skies leisurely, feasting on the infinite wonders which no consuetude could render commonplace. The ships were undermanned, for the sailors, too, had been ashore feasting. All previous coronations were said to be outdone by the feasting and joviality on this occasion. The Emperor was so pleased with pos talent that whenever he was feasting or drinking he always had this poet to wait upon him. Yet she could sit there, laughing and feasting and trulling it lightly with the legate! Some authors say that it was given him as he was feasting with the priests in the Capitol, by the eunuch Halotus, his taster. In fact, I had a worrying night, and got up feeling as if I had been feasting on tenpenny nails and roasted flat-irons. But what will you do in Thessaly besides feasting, as if you had gone to Thessaly to a banquet? It was gayly remarked, however, that they were quite entitled to their turn of feasting. I intend to have several days of feasting and merrymaking, in honor of your visit. Real enjoyment ought not to be dependent upon feasting and gustatory pleasures. Her boreal bloom doth win Our eyes to feasting rare On rich delight of nacreous skin, And a wealth of whiteness fair. It consists of feasting, dancing, and singing, as do most of the Nicobarese observances. There'd be seagulls feasting over that area, and there'd be vague tales about the happening in the bazaars of Hadhramaut. The only excitement was the end of the Ramadan fast and the entrance on the Bairam month of feasting. For ten days there was feasting and games in the palace in honor of Silenus. Show More Sentences But tell me, and tell me true, what is the meaning of all this feasting, and who are these people? At this hour he was at the presidio, feasting and making merry. The intimate corners of her body were alive with feasting antlike creatures, each of whose backs was marked with a golden cross. The whole day was devoted to barbarian feasting and carousing. With all this feasting and flirting and merry exchange of wit Bogle's came mighty near being a salon, with Aileen for its Madame Recamier. So the neighbours and kinsmen of Menelaus were feasting and making merry in his house. The little kitten, feasting her eyes on him, seemed ready at any moment to start her gambols again and display her kittenish nature. Then arose great revelry and feasting in the castle of the elfin Queen. Bowed then to bench those bearers-of-glory, fain of the feasting. As a person saved by the grace of God, I am an opportunist, feasting on the table He provides. I mean that my friends, officers in the guards and mousquetaires, came to keep me company and we passed the night in feasting, drinking, dicing. Even the tiniest of children toddled about the feasting fires or sprawled surfeited on the sands. Two easy chairs stood side by side at the head of the table, in which sat Beth and her father, feasting modestly on chicken and a little fruit. Here Sindbad paused, and commanded the musicians to play again, while the feasting continued until evening. While we were feasting we kept turning our eyes towards the land of the Cyclopes, which was hard by, and saw the smoke of their stubble fires. It sounds well enow, but who is to make ready this feasting? The smoke of the hot ovens arose under their windows, and the bodies of the slain were dragged by their doors on the way to the feasting. Tarzan of the Apes, feasting well upon a juicy haunch from Bara, the deer, was vaguely conscious of a troubled mind. After the feasting was over the two namesakes, along with other men, went to the cliff and brought all the treasure home to the Palace. There was great feasting and celebration in the barrio that night. Show More Sentences They stood a long time on the hilltop, feasting their eyes on the splendor of the Emerald City. Additionally, the Eleusinian Mysteries allowed foreigners to participate in festivals featuring public feasting. They come to life and retire to the hall for feasting and revelry. The camp was still astir, and there were sounds of feasting and revelry. At midnight, that night, after the usual feasting, Conrad was taken to the haunted chamber and left there. After him I saw mighty Hercules, but it was his phantom only, for he is feasting ever with the immortal gods, and has lovely Hebe to wife, who is daughter of Jove and Juno. Blackcaps, reed and sedge warblers appear in habitats away from their nesting areas, feasting on berries and insects before they continue their journey to Africa. Find more words! 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