Example Sentences

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I tell you again, we are banqueting over a powder-magazine; and even as to the marriage itself, I don't like it.

From One Of Them by Lever, Charles James

While the Burgundians are banqueting with the king of Hungary, their men are resting in the hall where they slept, under the charge of Dankwart, Hagen's brother.

From The Book of the Epic by Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)

“We may fancy all the time that we are banqueting on a magnificent sturgeon.”

From Hendricks the Hunter The Border Farm, a Tale of Zululand by Kingston, William Henry Giles