30 Verbs to Use for the Word fasts

And, day by day, a friendship waxed and grew betwixt them so that upon the seventh morning, as they broke their fast together, Beltane's heart was heavy and his look downcast; whereat the stranger spake him thus: "Whence thy dole, good youth?"

When observing his fasts, he made a point of having bright, shiny garments, made of linen.

They kept the Church fasts like saints; they kept the Church feasts like satyrs.

The Nestorians begin their fast on Tuesday and end it on Thursday, and on Friday they bless the flesh, as if it were the Paschal Lamb.

They ordained a fast.

When they were ready for sea, the whole congregation assembled themselves together, and observed a solemn fast, which concluded with prayer; and Robinson preached to them from Ezra viii, 21: 'Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.'

He is celebrated by Bede for two exploits; for establishing the fast of Lent in his kingdom, and for utterly extirpating idolatry, which, notwithstanding the prevalence of Christianity, had hitherto been tolerated by the two preceding monarchs.

SEE BREWSTER, EUGENE V. Tie-fast, hombre.

[Sidenote: Joel 2:16-17] Blow a horn in Zion, Sanctify a fast, summon an assembly, Gather the people, make holy the congregation, Assemble the old men, Gather the children, and the infants at the breast, Let the bridegroom come forth from his chamber, And the bride from her bridal tent.

Every obstacle to the departure of the Winkelried was now removed, and Baptiste and his crew were soon actively engaged in loosening the sails and in casting off the fasts.

Just now coming from winter quarters, when I could not preach, I held twelve fasts and twelve vigils.

When all were safely assembled on the deck of the Intrepid, (for so admirably had the service been executed that not a man was missing, and only one slightly wounded,) Decatur gave the order to cut the fasts and shove off.

" "Yonder come others, in haste, to be of the party!" interrupted the cunning Italian; "loosen thy fasts quickly, Master Baptiste, or, by San Gennaro!

[Sidenote: Sir Launcelot breaks his fast in the forest] To these rude fellows he appeared out of the dark forest like some bright and shining vision; and they made him welcome and offered him to eat of their food, and he dismounted and sat down with them and brake his fast with them.

We have not yet confessed our sins to him, but we fancy he will be a kindly soul when behind the curtain,would sooner order boiled than hard peas to be put into one's shoes by way of penance, would far rather recommend a fast on salmon than a feast on bacon, and would generally prefer a soft woollen to a hard horse hair shirt in the moments of general mortification.

And moreover he accommodated his fasts and feasts and holidays and pilgrimages to the old customs of the people, thereby teaching lessons of worldly wisdom.

He has tried several fasts, and redoubled studies, and exhausted his strength in constant exercises, but all to no purpose.

Fires were lit, andafter a fourteen hours' fast we feasted royally on beans and rice and pork and beef, seated around ox-skins spread upon the ground.

[Footnote 9: Or any other corruptions thereof, Prelatic or Erastian, either tried or to be tried; such as indulgence, the toleration, the magistrates appointing fasts without advice and consent of the church, dissolving assemblies, &c.]

Instead, the people celebrated in sackcloth and ashes the fasts commemorating the successive stages in the destruction of their city (Zech.

Pipe after pipe passedthe men grew hungry, but, observing that there were no preparations of a meal for the bourgeois, they bore their fast without complaining.

THE SHELLS COME FAST "From then on to about 8 p. m. life was a chance and mighty uncomfortable.

Fortunately the Koran expressly permits invalids, children, and travellers to disregard the fast, so that although we eat and drink when we like, we are none the less looked upon as good Mussulmans.

I now had not a half-farthing's worth of parched grain [to grind between my jaws,] and give a relish to the water I drank: I endured two or three severe fasts, but could no longer bear [the cravings of] hunger.

The neglect of his writings must be considered as indicative of an increasing neglect of that apostolical establishment, whose Fasts and Festivals this author has illustrated with a raciness of style and sentiment worthy of a primitive father of the Church.

30 Verbs to Use for the Word  fasts