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Definition of Feastless
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Feastless
Literary usage of Feastless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue by Stopford Augustus Brooke, Thomas William Rolleston (1900)
"... THE IRISH LONG they pine in weary woe—the nobles of our land— Long they wander
to and fro, proscribed, alas ! and banned ; feastless, houseless, ..."
2. Poems by James Clarence Mangan, John Mitchel (1859)
"LONG they pine in weary woe, the nobles of our land, Long they wander to and fro,
proscribed, alas! and banned; feastless, houseless, ..."
3. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1882)
"... them the needed supplies and they met for a feastless dance. Their heads and
hearts grew lighter as they flew .around the mound until suddenly the whole ..."
4. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1882)
"But the parents refused them the needed supplies and they met for a feastless dance.
Their heads and hearts grew lighter as they flew around the mound until ..."
5. The Song Lore of Ireland: Erin's Story in Music and Verse by Redfern Mason (1910)
"While Shane thought only of his own well-being, the Gael mourned the absence of
the old gentry, "feastless, houseless, ..."
6. Echoes of the Aesthetic Society of Jersey City by Aesthetic Society of Jersey City, Celie Gaines, Lizzie R. Burst (1882)
"But the parents refused them the needed supplies and they met for a feastless dance.
Their heads and hearts grew lighter as they flew around the mound until ..."
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