"Banqueting" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fragrance, and as we reclined on the floor, we found that a portmanteau was just the right height for a table; the duty of candlesticks was ably performed by a couple of intelligent natives; the rest of the villagers stood by the open doorway at the lower end of the room, and watched our banqueting with ...
— Eothen • A. W. Kinglake
... ultimate opening of the door was unnoted by those present, or that no one observed the tall man with whisker extensions to a mustache naturally too large, who came in after the messenger. Observed or not, however, he entered and walked heavily down the banqueting-hall. ...
— Double Trouble - Or, Every Hero His Own Villain • Herbert Quick
... programme the women and men of the banqueting party who were to appear in the fancy-dress ball at twelve retired to the rooms above to dress for ...
— The Root of Evil • Thomas Dixon
... he has committed the theft, pretend it is done with thy goodwill; yet put off the wedding till he has given me his daughter in thy place. When she has been granted, Gotar and I will hold our marriage on the same day. And take care that thou prepare rooms for our banqueting which have a common party-wall, yet are separate: lest perchance, if I were before thine eyes, thou shouldst ruffle the king with thy lukewarm looks at him. For this will be a most effective trick to baffle the wish of the ravisher." Then he bade Brak (one of his men), to lie in ambush not far from ...
— The Danish History, Books I-IX • Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned")
... is no banqueting-hall, with its refinements and luxuries; it is a workshop where suitable tools are provided, and everybody gets up and goes as soon as he has finished. The coming and going within are swift. There is no dawdling ...
— A Distinguished Provincial at Paris • Honore de Balzac
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