He was desired to join in the repast, during which he behaved with tolerable propriety.
Repast is supposed to be more 'refined' than meal.
I saw many passengers in first class being served copious, tasty, delicious repasts: champagne, beautiful hostesses and stewards serving them, armchairs, comfort ?
I am afraid that it now falls to me to provide a little port to go on top of the repast.
Given this largesse and these priorities, it is hardly surprising that the gains to the poor are merely the leavings after the more ample repast of the already well-sated.
All the cornucopias in the world, and all the delectable repasts such as he gives us, would not pay for the soling of the boots of a working man's child.
A dinner of corn bread alone, or of meat without bread, was a common repast.
Any animal deemed unworthy is rejected and thrown as a repast to a massive sleeping bull-dog.