Festal Sentence Examples

The story of Ruth (the Moabitess, great-grandmother of David) is one of the Old Testament Hagiographa and is usually reckoned as the second of the five Megilloth (Festal Rolls).

When (with her assistance) they solved it, he provided their prize of thirty festal garments by killing thirty men of Ashkelon.

The days of General Admission are ' scarlet ' days, and Doctors in the different Faculties are asked to wear their festal gowns.

Gluttony and winebibbing are granted a plenary indulgence by all but the most ascetic at this festal time.

It is, however, known that the Hungarians had their own martial songs, and that their princes kept lyre and lute who sang festal odes in praise of the national relics.

Late Minoan art in its finest aspect is best illustrated by the animated ivory figures, wall paintings, and gesso duro reliefs at Cnossus, by the painted stucco designs at Hagia Triada, and the steatite vases found on the same site with zones in reliefs exhibiting life-like scenes of warriors, toreadors, gladiators, wrestlers and pugilists, and of a festal throng perhaps representing a kind of " harvest home."

There was a festal procession thence annually to the ancient temple.

The sacred barks of the divinities preserved in the sanctuary of Karnak were then conveyed in procession by water to Luxor and back again; a representation of the festal scenes is given on the walls of the great colonnade.

The ceremonial clothing of the god on the occasion of festal processions, undertaken in Egypt by the `` master of secret things," may be compared with the well-known Babylonian representations of such promenades.

She was canonized in 1746 by Benedict XIV., who fixed her festal day on the 13th of February.

Moreover, we know from the Festal letter of A.D.

Valid meetings might be held on any of the 194 "comitial" days of the year which were not market or festal days (nundinae, feriae).

The streets are lighted with electricity and gas, the Ouvidor and some other narrow streets having a great number of gas-pipe arches across them for decorative illumination on festal occasions.

Sixteen women, representing eight towns of Elis and eight of Pisatis, wove the festal robe for the Olympian Hera.

It was used as a promenade, and as a place from which to view the festal processions as they passed towards the Altis.

A similar festal intention in design and colouring, with similar mastery in passages and even less sense of harmonious relations in the whole, is apparent in a second important picture painted by Darer at Venice, "The Virgin and Child with the Goldfinch," formerly in the collection of Lord Lothian and now at Berlin.

In Travancore a serpent-god is the property of a family, the priests of a temple; the eldest female carries the image at the festal processions and must lead a celibate life (Oldham, 153 seq.).

From its roof the famous Moravian trombones were long played on festal or funeral occasions, and later summoned the people to musical festivals.

From the 3rd century the use of the Hallel was extended to other occasions, and was gradually incorporated into the liturgy of eighteen festal days.

Not only was the cottabus the ordinary accompaniment of the festal assembly, but at least in Sicily a special building of a circular form was sometimes erected so that the players might be easily arranged round the basin, and follow each other in rapid succession.

The epithet "violet-crowned," used of Athens by Pindar, is due either to the blue haze on the surrounding hills, or to the use of violets (or irises) for festal wreaths.

On festal occasions he decks his wellforked-out and dyed hair with feathers and flowers, and sticks others in his ear-lobe holes and under his armlets; while a warrior will have ovula shells and various bones of his victims dangling from ringlets of his hair, or fixed to his armbands or girdle.

Demosthenes has at command all the discursive brilliancy which fascinates a festal audience.

They determined that these should be kept as festal days henceforth in commemoration of their deliverance.