fete-day

It was as though a wand had waved and from a fete-day on the Continent we had been wafted to London on a rainy Sunday.

Archive 2008-07-27 de Brantigny........................ 2008

It was as though a wand had waved and from a fete-day on the Continent we had been wafted to London on a rainy Sunday.

Advance into Belgium de Brantigny........................ 2008

“When it concerns mademoiselle,” said the abbe, armed with his own bouquet, “every day is a fete-day for my nephew.”

Eug�nie Grandet 2007

September was not yet over; it was warm and fine, so that women sat chatting before their doors as if it were a fete-day in some country town.

The Magic Skin 2007

This particular day was a fete-day well known to the Cruchotines and the Grassinists.

Eug�nie Grandet 2007

On the fete-day, after mass, during which several glances had been exchanged, Savinien, watched by Ursula, crossed the road and entered the little garden where the pair were practically alone; for the kind old man, by way of indulgence, was reading his newspapers in the pagoda.

Ursula 2006

Mrs. Thompson also saw, as she glanced round, and then Mimmy walked across the yard in her best clothes with a fete-day air about her for which her mother would have liked to have whipped her.

Tales of all countries 2004

It was a fete-day: a mass of Mozart was sung in the evening — not well sung, and yet so exquisitely tender and melodious, that it brought tears into our eyes.

Little Travels and Roadside Sketches 2004

With that frankness which constituted a necessary condition of our relations I told him, as soon as we entered the drozhki, how much it depressed and hurt me to see him, on this my fete-day in a frame of mind so irksome and disagreeable to me.

Youth 2003

One of these, a M. Tiquet, a Councillor of the Parliament, sent her on her fete-day a bouquet, in which the calices of the roses were of large diamonds.

Diamonds and Pearls 1969