1 Everybody gave parties in celebration and the fire department was kept busy fighting the flames that spread from the bonfires of jubilant small boys.
2 A charming informality was one of the characteristics of this celebration.
3 At home, also, there was more good news; so much of it at once that there was quite a celebration in Aniele's hall bedroom.
4 The remnants of the family had quite a celebration that night; and in the morning Jurgis was at the place half an hour before the time of opening.
5 For in its celebration many beasts were slaughtered, and this being a cruel spectacle imparted a cruel temper to the worshippers.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II. 6 Harper, of the University of Chicago, who was chairman of the committee of invitations for the celebration to be held in the city of Chicago, to deliver one of the addresses at the celebration there.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter XV. 7 An impromptu celebration of the victory was held immediately.
8 The most suitable fete the Germans can devise for him is a celebration of Jena and Auerstadt.
9 The soul enters into contemplation before that sanctuary where the celebration of love takes place.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING 10 London was our present point of rest; we determined to remain several months in this wonderful and celebrated city.
11 Tom rang for the janitor and sent him for some celebrated sandwiches, which were a complete supper in themselves.
12 These are two celebrated ones.
13 But Alexey Alexandrovitch, my celebrated brother-in-law, you surely must know.
14 The celebrated physician, a very handsome man, still youngish, asked to examine the patient.
15 After a careful examination and sounding of the bewildered patient, dazed with shame, the celebrated doctor, having scrupulously washed his hands, was standing in the drawing room talking to the prince.