Here and there, in a back street, may still be seen what was once the mansion of a merchant prince, ample and stately, with the rooms which in former days displayed the pride of commercial wealth and resounded with the festivities of the olden time; now the sound of the pen alone is heard.

A very serious man may be an object of veneration; but he is a constant rebuke to the weaknesses of our common humanity,a wet blanket upon frivolous festivities.

Just three years had elapsed since the settlement commenced, and the celebration of the anniversary on the opening week was rendered more observable and gladdening by the return of the founder to share and grace the festivities of the occasion.

The consumption of the coco and nipa wine is, nevertheless, considerable, for it is used in all their festivities, cock-fights, games, marriages, etc.

Festivities are then held, the saints thanked for their kindness, and blessings invoked for another year.

During the festivities of the Saturnalia, which were kept by the ancients with all the hilarity of the modern Christmas, Nero had been elected by lot as "governor of the feast," and, in that capacity, was entitled to issue his orders to the guests.

Hunting, fishing, boxing, wrestling, occupied the leisure of the two princes, and they shared the rustic festivities of the vintage.

Under its fascinating Castellana the Baroncelli villa became a busy little Court, the scene of constant festivities, gossip, and intrigue.

During the festivities Bianca managed to be tête-à-tête with her brother-in-law in a secluded summer-house.

Cardinal Ferdinando watched all these ceremonials from afarthe only one of his family who declined to honour the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess with his presence during the festivities.

Alas, when the merriment was at its height, a sudden stop was put to all the festivities, for, during the night of 8th October, the Grand Duke was taken ill with severe spasms and violent sickness.

He remained in Florence a considerable time, and took a leading part in the splendid festivities and the notable giostre, wherein he was hailed as a champion in the "Lists.

It even seemed a fitting occasion that Gracchus, on his return to Rome, should order a picture representing the festivities of that day to be executed in the temple of Liberty, which his father caused to be built on the Aventine out of money arising from fines, and which his father also dedicated.

From the fondness with which his gaze swept the naked peaks they might have been cities en fête calling him to their festivities.

Even after the fair festivities were over there would not be much of a breathing spell, for then came the work on the flax.

They had had weeks of work broken by many holiday festivities.

But, notwithstanding their oath, two of the brothers, having invited the third to the Easter festivities, seized him at night in his bed, put out his eyes so that he might not find the way to his castle, and cut out his tongue so that he might not name the authors of this horrible treatment.

We see the show, and hear the music, and smell the flowers of great festivities, tasting as it were the drippings from rich dishes.

"There were endless festivities upon occasion of the marriage; and my grandfather did not go to one of them in his dressing-gown.

The countless crowds of Toltecs that come to the wedding festivities, and are drowned before midnight in the waters of the strangely named river, are they not the infinitely numerous light-rays which are quenched in the world-stream, when the sun has sunk, and the gloaming is lost in the night?

No subject is likely to be introduced amid the festivities of a fashionable circle, until it is fully endorsed by public sentiment.

"I'll settle him," said Squire Headlong; and immediately posted up to Mr. Cranium, informing him that four marriages were about to take place by way of a merry winding up of the Christmas festivities.

As hasty a retreat as possible was beaten, amid the shouts, the jeers, and the condolences of their acquaintances; and it is on record that these three young gentlemen were in no hurry to accept, at any future time, an invitation to partake of the festivities of Hickory Creek.

During the last two weeks, however, every one went home to rest and prepare for the festivities to succeed the wedding; and the old house was as quiet as a canon in the mountains.

And all those hoursfor seldom were the moments when, against my will I was compelled to gladnessI became more and more alone; for Effie being the soul of the festivities,since Mary Strathsay oftenest stood cold and proudly by, wax-white and like a statue on the wall,and all the world looking on at what they deemed to be no less than Angus's courtship, I saw little of her except I rose on my arm to watch her smiling sleep deep in the night.