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"Supper's been ready sence six," said the clerk, whose agile toothpick proclaimed that he himself had banqueted.

From In a Little Town by Hughes, Rupert

After they had banqueted, Dragonbeard commanded his servitors to bring in couches upon which embroidered silken covers had been spread.

From The Chinese Fairy Book by Wilhelm, Richard

Eusthenes and Carpalin carried the body to the place where they had banqueted, not out of any hope that ever he would recover, but that Pantagruel might see it.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

Although the travellers had banqueted on roots, and been regaled with tobacco smoke, yet their stomachs craved more generous fare.

From The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West by Bonneville, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de