Example Sentences

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And the Colonel made a swoop for a particularly vicious flea which was banqueting on the lobe of his ear.

From Si Klegg, Book 4 (of 6) Experiences Of Si And Shorty On The Great Tullahoma Campaign by McElroy, John

"According to his wont," says the Duke of Aumale in his Histoire des Princes de Conde, "the Bearnese was on horseback whilst his adversary was banqueting."

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 by Black, Robert

Hunter husbands met their broods, and there was banqueting, which increased as, hour after hour, new groups came in.

From The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man by Waterloo, Stanley

There was banqueting and feasting, and all at a time when the treasury was depleted, when the civil and military forces had their payments in arrear, and when national debt heaped upon national debt.

From George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life by Fenn, George Manville

The women were immediately set to work to prepare the feast; and in a short time the whole population was banqueting.

From Adventures in Africa By an African Trader by Kingston, William Henry Giles