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    1. The day after the grand banquet, old Ted was summoned to the hotel in the capital city where his employer and his wife were staying for a few days


    2. The day after the grand banquet, old Ted was summoned to the


    3. Johnny the Killer stood at the backdoor to the banquet hall, sipping out of


    4. That evening the town provided a banquet for the


    5. required her to serve at a banquet, since one of the housemaids was sick with ague and another was in her time of menses, making her unfit to handle food


    6. The banquet hall was as austere as the rest of the house, but the low table was handsomely carved


    7. Together with the Mistress, he took his deipnon in a smaller room next to the banquet


    8. and cured olives, Nerissa saw four men reclining on the banquet hall’s couches


    9. She put it on the tray that she was clearing, filled it with more dishes, then left the banquet hall


    10. And I hope that when I do, I can celebrate them in your banquet

    11. I have seen, says Doctor Pocock, an Arabian chief dine in the streets of a town where he had come to sell his cattle, and invite all passengers, even common beggars, to sit down with him and partake of his banquet


    12. To dream that you are at a banquet indicates that you are emotionally malnourished


    13. who’d pulled her onto his lap in Theoton’s banquet hall


    14. Upon their arrival at the banquet hall the doorkeeper pushed open the two heavy, wooden doors to let them in


    15. The creativity in decorating the banquet hall impressed him beyond words


    16. The slave girls then took up their positions in a row and a silence fell on the crowd as they awaited the king’s signal that the banquet could commence


    17. “I now declare this banquet open,” the king announced and sat down


    18. Soon the banquet was in full swing


    19. The banquet will be over soon enough and then we can drink our fill of love for the rest of our lives


    20. He thanked the king and queen for their presence and for having allowed them the use of the banquet hall and especially the food and drink, which had exceeded all expectations

    21. He was momentarily distracted by the arrival of a large pie, borne aloft by Mrs Pilfer, who evidently feared that the banquet was not extensive enough already


    22. He had John beheaded and the head brought to the banquet on a platter


    23. Then replaced it and continued; "The rest of the Kings and Envoys apart from a few who had far to travel stayed for a magnificent banquet, where another decision was made


    24. banquet that their spirits infected mine


    25. Had I based my expectations solely on the merit of what I’d been led to believe, brutal torture would have been the order of the day, instead of a lavish, gourmet banquet that seemed impossibly exceptional by any standards


    26. “The banquet is in two hours,” he says


    27. 4 And Esther answered, if it seems good to the king; let the king and Haman come this day to the banquet that I have prepared for


    28. So the king and Haman came to the banquet


    29. 6 And the king said to Esther at the banquet of wine, what is your petition? And it shall be granted you, and what is your request?


    30. and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do tomorrow as the king has said

    31. 12 Haman said moreover, Yes, Esther the queen did let no man come in with the king to the banquet that she had prepared but


    32. king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon; then go you in merrily with the king to the banquet; And the thing pleased Haman; and


    33. 14 And while they were yet talking with him, came the king's chamberlains, and hasted to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther


    34. 1 So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen


    35. 2 And the king said again to Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, what is your petition, Queen Esther? And it shall be


    36. 8 Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen on the bed on which


    37. maidens? 6 Shall the companions make a banquet of him? Shall they part him among the merchants? 7 Can you fill his skin with


    38. Next were another staircase, then the kitchen, and then the banquet hall


    39. Beyond the banquet hall there was a smaller dining room


    40. Theodore led the way through the banquet hall and into the kitchen where we sat down with the guards

    41. He then went on to describe the welcoming banquet he was having prepared for us


    42. 10 Now the queen by reason of the words of the king and his Lords came into the banquet house, and the queen spoke and


    43. 7 Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of those who stretched themselves shall


    44. When she invites you to your banquet, I’ll stay in camp and you can explain to her what our relation actually is


    45. It proved to be as she promised a banquet of all the local delicacies


    46. not easy, but a matter of sweat and watching; 27 Even as it is no ease to him who prepares a banquet, and seeks the benefit of others;


    47. There would be a banquet in my honor that evening


    48. We, of course, had to endure yet another banquet in my honor


    49. I reluctantly agreed, on the condition that there would be no banquet in my honor


    50. We were treated to another banquet with all the influential people of the town














































    1. great multitude of men of war, and there he took his ease, and banqueted, both he and his army, an hundred and twenty days


    2. 16 So he returned afterward to Nineveh both he and all his company of sundry nations being a very great multitude of men of war and there he took his ease and banqueted both he and his army an hundred and twenty days


    3. banqueted heavily, and will sleep late?"


    1. The queen was happy for the couple, offering them the banqueting hall in the palace and insisting that the royal chef and his staff provide a wedding feast fit for a king, exactly to Helez’s specifications


    2. in the new and gorgeous banqueting hall of the palace


    3. In the royal banqueting hall the Christmas dinner was royally set and


    4. consternation appeared on the faces around the royal banqueting board,


    5. very banqueting house at Whitehall, Charles Stuart learned all too late


    6. 4 He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love


    7. Simon into the banqueting place, and killed him, and his two sons, and certain of his servants


    8. burial into banqueting booths


    9. Milling about were worried looking waiters and even more anxious looking banqueting managers


    10. The banqueting suite was full to capacity; Distinguished guests from the world of banking had descended on the beautifully laid venue, drinking champagne and cocktails while waiters buzzed around with huge silver trays of canapés

    11. 16 So when Simon and his sons had drunk largely Ptoleme and his men rose up and took their weapons and came on Simon into the banqueting place and killed him and his two sons and certain of his servants


    12. Full of exultation they parted out the place intended for their fall and burial into banqueting booths


    13. The Banqueting Hal of the Summer Palace had already been


    14. as he paced up and down the Banqueting Hal


    15. O Lord, my God and my Father in Jesus Christ, I can never sufficiently admire the condescension of thy grace to me; what is man that thou dost thus magnify him, and the son of man that thou visitest him! Who am I? and what is my house that thou hast brought me hitherto; hast brought me into thy banqueting house, and thy banner over me hath been love? I have reason to say, That a day in thy courts, an hour at thy table, is better, far better, than a thousand days, than ten thousand hours elsewhere; it is good for me to draw near to God


    16. He saw the feast being held in the banqueting suite on top of Vierte’s Wall Street trading office


    17. Zeus was banqueting with his gods and goddesses on Mount Olympus


    18. You need a banqueting hall, and a private chapel, and spacious bedchambers


    19. They sat at one end of the long banqueting table


    20. Leiber was dropped into the rush of ordering, planning, banqueting, making the rounds, telephoning, arguing in conference, downing coffee in scalding gulps betweentimes

    21. Dave was dropped into the rush of ordering, planning, banqueting, telephoning, arguing in conference


    1. Ever since then the head chef insisted on ordering fresh seasonal fruit and vegetables for banquets and special occasions through old Ted’s niece, and all the while the unsuspecting Ted had been convinced that his niece was strangely obsessed by fresh fruit and vegetables


    2. vegetables for banquets and special occasions through old Ted’s


    3. It was designed for feasts and banquets, but it was rarely used for this type of function


    4. De la Vega, ever the gossip, told me that Gonzalo was offended by the “tone” of the papa’s banquets


    5. Seeing that I was bewildered by that remark, he explained that even though the papa was the “vicar of Christ” and the successor of the “apostles,” he did not lead a very moral life, and was wont to flaunt his excesses at this banquets


    6. 16 The king was filled with great and constant joy, and celebrated banquets before the temple idols


    7. 16 The king was filled with great and constant joy and celebrated banquets before the temple idols


    8. always in charge of banquets at the end of each sport season—a real force of nature


    9. 10 Many other semiprivate meetings and banquets did Jesus attend with the high and the low, the rich and the poor, of Jerusalem before he and his apostles finally departed for Capernaum


    10. ―It says here that the next pope was Leo X, who indeed indulged in papal extravagance, attending banquets and carnivals and bull-fights

    11. The self-contained, free standing thatched cottage provided the finest accommodation and they found delectable fare and sumptuous banquets at the hotel


    12. good food and banquets but he has never complaint


    13. She neither refuses the hated nuptials, nor does she have the courage to go through with them; in the meantime the Suitors are ruining my house with their banquets and soon they will tear me to pieces as well»


    14. Nobody ever went hungry and I have fond memories of some hotel meals from conferences that were cancelled or weddings that were called off and banquets that cooked more than they could use


    15. synagogues, and places of honor at banquets


    16. Adorno was also an autocrat to excess, insisting upon lavish banquets, ceremonies, and balls at every turn


    17. hosting banquets for his councilors and nobles –and for a number of ladies


    18. Blind beggars given a special place at banquets and feasts, on behest of the host


    19. my older cousins had her wedding in Batra Banquets, another one in Bawa Hall


    20. So abundantly had they been favored by heaven they had, instead of being humbled, exalted themselves above measure, until their ambition had grown into habitual rivalry for distinction in high places, and at the feasts and banquets

    21. "The queen who mended her stockings in prison," he thought, "must have looked then every inch a queen and even more a queen than at sumptuous banquets and levees


    22. "How little thou knowest about it," answered Don Quixote; "I would have thee to know, Sancho, that it is the glory of knights-errant to go without eating for a month, and even when they do eat, that it should be of what comes first to hand; and this would have been clear to thee hadst thou read as many histories as I have, for, though they are very many, among them all I have found no mention made of knights-errant eating, unless by accident or at some sumptuous banquets prepared for them, and the rest of the time they passed in dalliance


    23. I say this, Sancho, because thou hast seen the good cheer, the abundance we have enjoyed in this castle we are leaving; well then, amid those dainty banquets and snow-cooled beverages I felt as though I were undergoing the straits of hunger, because I did not enjoy them with the same freedom as if they had been mine own; for the sense of being under an obligation to return benefits and favours received is a restraint that checks the independence of the spirit


    24. In the basement were the large kitchen that prepared food for the banquets, a jail and an office for the constable


    25. Had they followed their hereditary taste, the New England settlers would have illustrated all events of public importance by bonfires, banquets, pageantries, and processions


    26. At all former and precedent banquets, it had been the custom to give vent to muckle wanton and luxurious indulgence, and to galravitch, both at hack and manger, in a very expensive manner to the funds of the town


    27. "The queen who mended her stockings in prison," he thought, "must have looked then every inch a queen and even more a queen than at sumptuous banquets and levées


    28. For three days he sneezed and coughed, and he could not go out, and even after that his speeches at banquets were limited to "Thag you very buch


    29. almost his only duty was to preside at banquets, given on the Shire-holidays, which occurred at frequent intervals


    30. He resigned the office of Deputy Mayor at the Free Fair that mid-summer, and dear old Will Whitfoot had another seven years of presiding at Banquets

    31. "And now I suggest we all repair to the library for a glass of sherry while waiting for Grandma to fix one of her amazing banquets


    32. What would the dustbin of such an incredible spider resemble? What the remnants of many banquets? I shuddered


    33. ‘must have looked then every inch a queen and even more a queen than at sumptuous banquets and levées


    34. Afterwards, when by her efforts a committee had been formed and had attacked the subject more seriously, it was proved clearly to her at once that if they were going to dream of banquets there would be very little left for the governesses, however well people subscribed


    35. Learned men found societies (there are more than one hundred of them), they assemble in Congresses (like those held in London and Paris and the one which is to be held in Rome), they read essays, hold banquets, make speeches, edit journals devoted to the subject, and by all these means they endeavor to prove that the strain upon nations who are obliged to support millions of soldiers has become so severe that something must be done about it; that this armament is opposed to the character, the aims, and the wishes of the populations; but they seem to think that if they consume a good deal of paper, and devote a good deal of eloquence to the subject, that they may succeed in conciliating opposing parties and conflicting interests, and at last effect the suppression of war


    36. The same sovereigns have still the same audiences and interviews, hunts and banquets, and balls and uniforms; there are the same diplomats and the same deliberations on alliances and wars; there are still the same parliaments, with the same debates on the Eastern question and Africa, on treaties and violations of treaties, and Home Rule and the eight-hour day; and one set of ministers replacing another in the same way, and the same speeches and the same incidents


    37. “We must go hungry,” he concluded, disdainfully, “while we have the teeth to eat, in order that our mumbling old age may be regaled with banquets it is past enjoying


    38. ” What a series of banquets on blood and warm, almost living flesh is here presented! How cruel these creatures are to each other, is the thought that first comes to us, but a second, reminds that it is but their instinct and a necessity of natural law, and repulsion is lost in astonishment and delight at the marvellous fidelity with which the sculptor has rendered these links in the great chain of animal life


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    Synonyms for "banquet"

    banquet feast spread junket repast barbecue

    "banquet" definitions

    a ceremonial dinner party for many people


    a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed


    provide a feast or banquet for


    partake in a feast or banquet