Joyous

Usage examples of festal.

In truth, I am not certain which was worse, the bedchamber or the festal hall.

In the festal hall, Daeva Gashtaham was ever at hand, the resident Aka-Magus of Dar?

I dreaded the day that the Mahrkagir would summon him to the festal hall.

It was Rushad himself who would bring the opium tincture to the festal hall, late in the proceedings, and see it dispersed among the myriad pitchers of beer and kumis.

A dais was constructed in the festal hall, to the rear of the covered well where once the eternal flame of Ahura Mazda had burned.

I could not see who led the mad dash, for it seemed they all went at once, unarmed Furies in ragged attire, running wild for the festal hall, and most of the eunuchs with them.

Drujani and Tatar alike, abandoning the women and stumbling to the center of the festal hall to challenge him.

The festal hall was a bloody shambles, tables overturned, the trappings on the dais shredded, even the rubble filling the firepit scattered and strewn.

One of the women had snatched it up in passing in the wild rush for the festal hall.

And it was ordered that every year this festal show should be performed.

December 17, but the festal customs were kept up for seven days, thus lasting until the day before our Christmas Eve.

Consideration for the dead even leads people to prepare a warm bath in the belief that, like living folks, the kinsmen will want a wash before their festal meal.

It is first mentioned as a festal tide by the eastern Father, Ephraem Syrus, at the end of the fourth century, and was declared to be such by the western Council of Tours in 567.

And wherefore, save to grace a happy day, Did the whole West at blushing sunset glow With clouds that, floating up in bridal snow, Passed with the festal eve, rose-crowned, away?

From seeking her that night, so I reclined Amidst a group, where on the utmost plain A festal watchfire burned beside the dusky main.