Exempel på festivity

• The festivities lasted four days and were attended by the royal embassy and various nobles and prelates from near and far.

• While the theatre was to be the bastion of progress, traditional popular festivities such as carnival with its subversive potential for social inversion, were curbed.

• Perhaps more importantly, however, people walking from the square to the tower gate could view festivities taking place in the great hall.

• Gone were the regimental marching bands, displays with flags, cavalry formations, carriages of notables, festivities for the monarch's birthday and for royal visits.

• Appropriate departure festivities were arranged, and several thousand individuals were reported to have attended them.

• Effectively the site, surrounded by vast 'reopened' space, became the focal point for spontaneous gathering and festivities.

• The scenarios of the festivities grew more elaborate over the years, involving performances created specifically for the occasion.

• The town's newspapers had been abuzz with details of the plans and preparations for the celebration in the months leading up to the festivities.

• The festivities from the street swell into the open doors and soon what used to be a line of circulation becomes a bellyful.

• In doing so, the sights, sounds, tastes and smells of the festivities, and the cultural traditions and political intricacies surrounding them are graphically recreated.

• Another aspect that constantly appeared in festivities was light, manifested in a great variety of forms like torches, bon®res and ®reworks.

• The fair, which was widely advertised in the surrounding parishes, involved two days of festivities including cricket, dandy horse races, a climbing pole, and races for men, women and children.

• In many cases, these festivities were the expression of the town's feelings with regard to national events, like great military victories or births and marriages inside the royal family.

• The greatest share of mobile communication represents calls to immediate relatives, and relates to common plans and festivities, or simply assures the communication partners of their mutual attachment.

• To its own, the parish could be generous enough : the rogationtide festivities of 1746, bringing the parish together in an atmosphere of carnival and celebration, cost £6 10s.