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Example sentences for "repast"

Lexicographically close words:
repas; repass; repasse; repassed; repassing; repasts; repatriated; repatriating; repatriation; repay
  1. The young ladies, your cousins, are all here making such a row that my head is dazed, so that I won't to-day keep you to have your repast here.

  2. Invite this lady to have her repast here before she goes," observed Chia Chen to Mrs. Yu; and as he uttered these words he forthwith walked into the room on the off side.

  3. While they indulged in chatting and laughing, the plays they had chosen were all finished; whereupon the tables were cleared of the wines, and the repast was served.

  4. Hsing laughed; "it was simply to make you wait and have your repast with the young ladies and then go; but there's also a fine plaything that I'll give you to take back to amuse yourself with.

  5. While she was uttering these words, old goody Liu had had her repast and come over, dragging Pan Erh; and, licking her lips and smacking her mouth, she expressed her thanks.

  6. The half-demolished repast was cooling on the table, whilst our postilion retailed the Gazette, and the pigs and ducks were amicably grazing together on whatever the kitchen produced.

  7. The Hotel d'Angleterre, indeed, was not luxuriously supplied, and the whole of our repast was eggs and tea, which we had brought with us.

  8. And a few minutes after Mr. Strong's party had begun their repast he opened the door.

  9. And then the gayest repast began; nothing could have been more entertaining or full of wild entrain, and yet no one over-did it, or was vulgar or coarse.

  10. Zacouska was partaken of, and then the serious repast began.

  11. Our fellow passengers became interested spectators, and after our friend had finished his repast we introduced him to several of them.

  12. On this sustaining repast we fared on nearly twelve miles farther, through a rolling, good farming country, offering little for comment, in search of a night's lodging with one of the brothers Snap.

  13. What a repast they would have made for the Atlantic whale we did not see, and what inward comfort it would have given him to have swum through them once or twice with open mouth!

  14. When our repast was over, and I had drunk a glass of wine with the proprietor, I offered to pay him, tendering what I knew was a fair price in this region.

  15. After this frugal repast it needed an interval of prayers before supper.

  16. Unfortunately, however, before the repast of sausages could be prepared, a hue and cry reached the place, that this gracious Representant was an impostor!

  17. We will take a scene at hazard from a Theban tomb--that scene which represents the funerary repast offered to Prince Horemheb by the members of his family (fig.

  18. And here taking out what he said he had brought, the pair made their repast peaceably and sociably.

  19. The repast was apportioned to messes of four, all of which had precisely the same fare.

  20. On the dais, beneath the portraits of Littleton and Coke, sat some of the leading advocates of the day, partaking a more luxurious repast than that allotted to the occupants of the floor below.

  21. At Dinner they gave you at least Three Courses; but a third of the Repast was patched up with Sallets, Butter, Puff-paste, or some such miscarriages of Dishes.

  22. The repast was prolonged until the dawn of morning began to steal faintly in at the grated windows of the prison and the gathering tumult without announced the preparations to conduct them to their execution.

  23. The repast was prolonged with social converse.

  24. The repast was prolonged and varied with very much talk; but it was done at last.

  25. What is a dainty repast to Jo is then set before him, and he begins to gulp the coffee and to gnaw the bread and butter, looking anxiously about him in all directions as he eats and drinks, like a scared animal.

  26. The old girl has another trial to undergo after the conclusion of the repast in sitting in state to see the room cleared, the hearth swept, and the dinner-service washed up and polished in the backyard.

  27. A desirable place was soon found in a shady nook, and the repast was spread, to which it is almost needless to add they all did ample justice.

  28. So Louisa was left alone with the elders, who were not in such haste to move after their repast as the young people.

  29. When they had finished their repast their places were occupied by others, and I counted altogether more than fifty persons feeding on the mosque terrace at my host's expense.

  30. After the repast they adjourned together to the lovely gardens of the palace, which were brilliantly illuminated and filled with a numerous and festive company.

  31. Supper was ordered, and in a short time the Captain and his guest were discussing a repast which was far more appetizing than soldiers' fare usually is.

  32. Returning to the hotel, he went in to supper, and after a hearty repast seated himself in the reading-room to await the return of his mail-carriers.

  33. Here the party halted for dinner, and while engaged at their repast Webster noticed at an opposite table a friend of years ago, who wore the uniform of a Lieutenant of infantry.

  34. There was a very blank anchorite repast when Pen dined from home: and he himself headed the remonstrance from the kitchen regarding the deteriorated quality of the Fairoaks beer.

  35. At nine o'clock the breakfast-bell rang, and we found an excellent repast spread out for us on two long tables.

  36. In the course of our repast we again tasted the bread-fruit, but did not much appreciate it, though it was this time cooked in the native fashion--roasted underground by means of hot stones.

  37. Our repast was salt pork broiled, which the keenness of hunger made so delicious to my companions that they fed very heartily upon it.

  38. The preparations for the repast must have consumed time: the distribution of the victuals required also some hours; so that daylight could not have been far off when the meal was finished, and when Jesus dismissed his guests.

  39. The continuation of the miraculous repast was alone capable of moving them.

  40. In a short time they had traversed Gallilee; and it appears from the repast which Jesus soon after gave to a crowd of people, that the preaching of his missionaries had procured an abundant harvest.

  41. But these parasites, instead of finding a repast served out on the grass, were entertained with a sermon.

  42. Such a repast is never indulged in on any other day.

  43. On that day, the bridegroom, before he starts from his illam, partakes with his relatives and friends of a sumptuous repast called the ayani un.

  44. The woman takes up a few grains and puts them into the mouth of her husband and then they both partake of that light, symbolical repast from the same leaf.

  45. Terminated his repast the boa retires to his den and settles down for a little nap that will help his digestion.

  46. The startled guests filed hastily across to find a dainty but sumptuous repast served at little tables.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "repast" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.