1 Everything was very good; we did not spare the wine; and he exerted himself so brilliantly to make the thing pass off well, that there was no pause in our festivity.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 24. MY FIRST DISSIPATION 2 On the day when I was articled, no festivity took place, beyond my having sandwiches and sherry into the office for the clerks, and going alone to the theatre at night.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY 3 As he looked at it, he observed that there were flags in some of the principal streets, and other signs of festivity.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS 4 The site chosen for the village festivity was one of the lawnlike oases which were occasionally, yet not often, met with on the plateaux of the heath district.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression 5 During the days of his prosperity, not a festivity took place without himself and wife being among the spectators.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 26. The Pont du Gard Inn. 6 But in nothing in the house was the holiday so noticeable as in Marya Dmitrievna's broad, stern face, which on that day wore an invariable look of solemn festivity.
7 You are ignorant of the art of festivals.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ... 8 Certain unhealthy festivals disaggregate the people and convert them into the populace.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 9 Youth goes where there is joy, festivals, vivid lights, love.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER I—PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HA... 10 Several of these festivals were held, and quite a little sum of money was raised.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter VIII. 11 The most of this money was obtained by holding festivals and concerts, and from small individual donations.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter IX. 12 That two executions of considerable interest will take place the day after to-morrow at two o'clock, as is customary at Rome at the commencement of all great festivals.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 34. The Colosseum. 13 It was a perfect festival wherever he appeared.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO... 14 It is but just to add that he had forgotten to include in his calculations the forced repose of Sundays and festival days during nineteen years, which entailed a diminution of about eighty francs.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES 15 A young girl was weeding in a field, where a huge yellow poster, probably of some outside spectacle, such as a parish festival, was fluttering in the wind.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES