love-feast

Wesleyans, called back the exiles from Samoa, invited in the traders, held a general love-feast, took the lid off, proclaimed religious liberty and high tariff, and as for himself went back to the worship of his ancestors, dug up the idols, reinstated a few octogenarian priests, and observed the tabus.

THE PRINCESS 2010

It was a veritable love-feast, as dear to one as to the other.

CHAPTER IV 2010

Until he was called on the issue he had only the positive love-feast posts there but after the issue was raised he now deletes them all just like he will your emails and voice-mails when he gets to DC.

Our Mission: Repeal It. | RedState 2010

In the same spirit of camaraderie, the annual Jack London Birthday Banquet, inaugurated by Russ in 1970, perennially attracted upwards of two hundred London aficionados (and aficionadas, for neither Jack's appeal nor Russ's message was gender-biased) from home and abroad to celebrate a genuine "love-feast."

Two Into One: The Lives of Russ and Winnie Kingman 2003

They fell out, had a tussle, and Fred was worsted, for he's young and small, and Barraclough for all he has only one leg, is almost as strong as Sugden there - indeed, anybody that hears him roaring at a revival or a love-feast may be sure he's no weakling. '

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

DEAR COLONEL, — No, this is a love-feast; when you call a lodge of sorrow send for me.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

It was a love-feast, for the still night seemed to invite the trees to give of their richest and best; the psalm of the insects was audible, not to the distance whence the perfume was dissipated, but for many

Tropic Days 2003

It is not lawful without the bishop either to baptize, or to offer, or to present sacrifice, or to celebrate a love-feast.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

It is not lawful without the bishop either to baptize or to celebrate a love-feast; but whatsoever he shall approve of, that is also pleasing to God, so that everything that is done may be secure and valid.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

I don't know whether he's even dead or alive now, but I just remember after the feeling I had had of such a beautiful sort of love-feast, and to have that start so soon.

Oral History Interview with Virginia Foster Durr, February 6, 1991. Interview A-0337. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1991