Word: feasting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Gawain accepts and testing the knight's axe, cut off his head at a blow. The Green Knight, however, unhurt picks up his head and rides off. Gawain is to go to a place called Green Chapel and receive his return blow in a year. After All-Hallow Feast, Gawain sets out for the Green Chapel. At Christmas time he comes to a castie, whose owner, a huge knight, tells him that the Green Chapel is near and asks him to be his guest for a few days. For three successive mornings while the knight and his followers are hunting...
...seniors. The game was not well played by either team, but at the end was exciting enough to call forth considerable enthusiasm from the partisans of the two teams. When the seniors tied the score in the first half of the ninth inning, Ninety-one men held a love feast back of first base. The juniors took their turn a few minutes later, when through errors by Austrian, Lee and Bowman, Curtis scored the winning run for Ninety-two. The feature of the game was the batting of Curtis. The fielding was greatly interfered with by the strong wind. Spalding...
...know Sarah Barnhardt is to confess yourself unknown, and not to go to see this brilliant French actress and contortionist is to miss a most delicious dramatic feast. Verbum sapis...
...they struck with us five years ago. The consequence was that when the agreement expired this year, Springfield, Saratoga, Troy and Albany all became competitors for the profit that was to be made out of the boat race. But the New Londoners do not wish to lose their annual feast, and they will probably agree to stipulations which will materially alter the relations between the colleges and the city. The stipulations are in substance as follows...
...delicious dramatic feast is that which Mr. and Mrs. Kendall offer theatre-goers this week. "All for Her" is a play which the late Lester Wallack produced at the Globe Theatre some years ago. It affords both Mr. and Mrs. Kendall abundant opportunities for the exercise of that versatility of genius which characterizes the acting of both of these charming artists. It is far more pleasing than their play of last week, "The Squire," and a higher moral tone pervades the different scenes of the drama. "All for Her" will be given tonight and tomorrow afternoon and evening; the rest...