Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.
Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a 300-pound blocking back who has been splitting firewood nonstop for the last twelve hours on a subzero day in Manitoba.
I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are.
Eating's pretty major; we have feasts at our house.
Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.
Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
Every single day since Day 1, to Day 2, to Day 3, to Day 4, to Day 5, to Day 6, to Day 7 to Day 8, whatever day it is now, I've gotten better.
Well, you can go on looking forward," said Gandalf. "There may be many unexpected feasts ahead of you.
Conversation, fastidious goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will.
Country ham is baked whole, usually with a glaze, sometimes studded with cloves, and served as the centerpiece of Christmas and Easter feasts.
Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn.
Where are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine.
The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit...One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts.