118 adjectives to describe festivals

The corn is yielding to the sickle, the husbandmen, "By whose tough labours, and rough hands," our barns are stored with grain, are at their toils, and when nature is despoiled of her riches and beauty, will, with glad and joyous heart, celebrate the annual festival of THE HARVEST HOME.

It is supported and controlled by government, and has something of a religious and national character, being particularly employed for popular amusement in the celebration of religious festivals.

He was then exhorted not to fight on the solemn festival of the Purification.

THE GENEROUS The time now arrived for celebrating a grand festival, which returned every five years.

Let religious processions be solemnized; let sacred festivals be given; let the churches be covered with festive garlands.

Earl Stanhope (Life of Pitt, ii. 65) describes this Society in 1790, 'as a Club, till then of little note, which had a yearly festival in commemoration of the events of 1688.

In the foregoing calculation, besides making a generous donation of all the fractions to the objector, we have left out of the account, those numerous local festivals to which frequent allusion is made, as in Judges xxi.

At the licentious festivals common among tribes in America, Africa, India, and elsewhere, incest was one of the many forms of bestiality indulged in; this gives it a wide prevalence.

" At last my host summed up courage to say, "Mr. Hawkins, this is our little harvest festival of thanksgiving, and I should not like to be absent.

And in the joyous festival and in Alhambra's halls, She follows as he treads the dance at merry Moorish balls.

The Italian festa of to-day, usually, as in ancient times, linked to some religious festival, is a scene of gaiety, bright dresses, music, dancing, bonfires, races, and improvisation or mummery; and all that we know of the ancient rural festivals of Italy suggests that they were of much the same lively and genial character.

Upon the holy festival of Easter, King Edward the Confessor, wearing his royal crown, sat at dinner in his palace of Westminster, surrounded by many of his nobles.

The Christian Church adopted the method of showing great honour and glory to the principal festivals of the Christian year, to the great saints, the patrons of countries, dioceses, etc.

In brilliant festivals and noisy entertainments, there is always, at bottom, a sense of emptiness prevalent.

With this immense treasure the King returned to Ghazni, and in the year A.H. 400 held a magnificent festival, where he displayed to the people his wealth in golden thrones, and in other rich receptacles, in a great plain without the city of Ghazni; and after the feast every individual received a princely gift.

Yet that was one of the noisiest days of the royal festival, and he had to plunge into some scene of high gaiety the moment after we returned.

lie received me with true German cordiality, and on learning I was an American, spoke of having been invited to attend a musical festival in New York.

At the memorable festival given at Lille, in 1453, by the Duke of Burgundy, a very curious performance took place.

Yet he did not throw it away in building churches and founding monasteries, but spent it in a thousand little banquets and joyful festivals, keeping open house for all good fellows and pretty girls who came that way.

Curious festival of flowers at Genzano.

Shakespeare shows us Autolycus offering such songs at a rustic festival, the great poet emphasizes the fondness for the ballad which had for a long time been developing a taste for poetry.

" At Ghent floral festivals are held twice a year when amateur and professional florists assemble together and contribute each his share of flowers to the grand general exhibition which is under the direct patronage of the public authorities.

Indeed we may assume with a fair degree of probability that the need-fire was the parent of the periodic fire-festivals; at first invoked only at irregular intervals to cure certain evils as they occurred, the powerful virtue of fire was afterwards employed at regular intervals to prevent the occurrence of the same evils as well as to remedy such as had actually arisen.

How is it that I see no preparations in the King's household for celebrating the great vernal festival?

The Passover itself, though not at first an agricultural festival, became one by the waving of the Paschal sheaf, which gave permission to the people to begin their spring-harvestso thoroughly were they to be an agricultural and cattle-feeding people.

118 adjectives to describe  festivals