Theocles was enthroned in the chair of honour, his beard manifesting evident traces of the depilatories administered by Leaena, who nevertheless sat by his side, her voluptuous face gloating over the anticipated banquet of agony.

But they do nought but attend at the banquets in the palace.

W. breakfasted at home, went to the Senate every day and to the Institute on Fridays and we dined with our friends and had small dinners in our own house instead of official banquets at all the ministries (usually from Potel and Chabot at so much a head).

Narrate an escapade for (a) your father, (b) your cronies in response to a toast at a banquet with them.

On one occasion we had a banquet on the 2d of December.

There were nothing lout, fêtes and banquets to his honor, and the Russians proved to have great capacity for drinking.

"We've got our everyday little rations of beans and bacon, and we've got Potts's cake, and we've got one skinny ptarmigan to make a banquet for six hungry people!"

I saw Lysimachus betrayed by his son; {172a} Antiochus intriguing with his mother-in-law; {172b} Alexander the Thessalian slain by his wife; and Attalus poisoned by his son: in another place I saw Arsaces killing his wife, and the eunuch Arbaces drawing his sword upon Arsaces; Spartim, the Mede, dragged by the heels from the banquet by his guards, and knocked on the head with a cup.

He conspiring with my adulterous wife, they laid a scheme for my destruction, training me forth to a banquet as an ox goes to the slaughter, and there surrounding me they slew me with all my friends about me.

He gave theatre parties and banquets without number, and gave them with the marked success that invariably attended his efforts.

The same historians add, that Vortimer died; and that Vortigern, being restored to the throne, accepted of a banquet from Hengist, at Stonehenge, where 300 of his nobility were treacherously slaughtered, and himself detained captive

"Yes, a banquet like that of the convicts," said Tadeo.

Now we wanted trout; it was in the programme that something more delicate than salt-pork should grace our banquets before Katahdin.

Yet, in his speech at the Press banquet during the Imperial Conference of 1909, when he spoke of our modern civilisation "rattling into barbarism," he gave a hint of the movement to which alone I am inclined to trust.

More genial were the festivities of a feudal castle than any banquet between Jews and Samaritans.

" Later there was a gala dinner party, an occasion almost as gay as that Round Table banquet over eight years ago had been when Dick Carson had been formally inducted into the order and Doctor Holiday had announced that he was going to marry Miss Margery.

I seem to remember time very uncertainly, but you were talking about repasts, banquets, Lucullan banquets, more gorgeous banquets than old Nero had, and they say he was king of epicures.

In the foresayd palace there are many peacocks of golde: and when any Tartar maketh a banquet vnto his lord, if the guests chance to clap their hands for ioy and mirth, the sayd golden peacocks also will spread abroad their wings, and lift vp their traines, seeming as if they danced: and this I suppose to be done by arte magike or by some secret engine vnder the ground.

Banquet after banquet was held in England at which Bright and Thomson were the guests of honor.

He ought to have returned to England, grown a mane and a tufted tail, and become the king of beasts; or at least to have made a speech at a banquet about the noble and purifying mission of art.

They invited him to a huge banquet near Auckland, and danced a war-dance before their guest with the deliberate intention of overawing him.

* To descend from these altitudes, and not to protract our Fools' Banquet beyond its appropriate day,for I fear the second of April is not many hours distantin sober verity I will confess a truth to thee, reader.