Sentence examples for hosts a feast from inspiring English sources

The title of The Barmecide Feast refers to a story from the Arabian Nights in which a sultan hosts a feast with no food and asks his guests to imagine the feast instead.

When he arrived in Naukratis, he dedicated his figurine at the temple of Aphrodite and hosted a feast, the guests crowned with myrtle wreaths.

In October, Barilla hosted a feast in New York that explored the role of food in film, art and literature, inviting famous chefs to create new dishes based on the movie Babette's Feast, Norman Rockwell's painting "Freedom from Want" and other famous works.

One time, when an engineer asked him to host a feast in honor of a Persian festival named Nowruz, he went out of his way to research Iranian cuisine by going out to local restaurants and asking for advice from employees of Iranian descent.

James' successor, King Charles I, visited Edinburgh Castle only once, hosting a feast in the Great Hall and staying the night before his Scottish coronation in 1633.

The onsite Lanternan restaurant hosts a shrimp feast every Wednesday.

Whether in the brittle snobberies of a garden-party in 1979 or the druggy student-party antics of 1997, Slade House hosts not only a feast of mystery but a banquet of semi-documentary realism.

She describes meeting Ed; how a carefully planned meal went completely awry when she seated people wrongly; how her sister Sam will rig up an Indian tent in her Wiltshire garden and host a magical feast.

And then at Christmas time he would host a fine feast for thousands of kids in his hometown of Qunu.

We were welcomed like family by our host, and presented with a feast - lamb and noodle stew, chicken and rice, and Turkoman flat bread.

The story opens up one massive question, though: who would dare eject the king from a feast hosted by the marksmen of Stephen Harper's empire?