"Festive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... feel ready for anything more festive than a lynching party," muttered Dave, hotly. "See ...
— The High School Pitcher - Dick & Co. on the Gridley Diamond • H. Irving Hancock
... Having closed the entrance we lay down and tried to go to sleep. The noises which reached our ears showed us, however, that the dance was being kept up with unabated spirit, and I suspect that our hosts formed but a mean opinion of our tastes in consequence of our disappearing from the festive scene. ...
— Adventures in Africa - By an African Trader • W.H.G. Kingston
... carefully dressed himself in what he had that was best, in order to receive decently the long-expected visit; she fancied that he would move thoughtfully about the narrow room, trying to give it a feebly festive look in accordance with his own inward happiness. He would forget to eat, as he sat there, hearing the hours chime one after another, seeing the sun rise higher and higher until noon and watching the lengthening shadows of the chimneys on the ...
— A Cigarette-Maker's Romance • F. Marion Crawford
... Barbizon peasants. But the fact was that he was not the fellow; he wanted to paint beauty not pathos; and he thought, so far as he thought ethically about it, that, the Americans needed to be shown the festive and joyous aspects of their common life. To discover and to represent these was his pleasure as an artist, and his duty as a citizen. He suspected, though, that the trotting-match was the only fact of the Pymantoning County Fair that could ...
— The Coast of Bohemia • William Dean Howells
... had, by this time, come to the conclusion that the festive Blowick must be responsible for this visitation. He ...
— A Man of Means • P. G. Wodehouse and C. H. Bovill
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