"Getting the women in there, and who's to know what happens next with their love-feast!"

As with the early Christians, their use of the expression 'love-feast' was unfortunate.

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

Assuming this was all his mind's invention, were these perverse mementoes of Drew's love-feast?

The thing was becoming a love-feast.

We prepare a love-feast in your honor."

Soon after the year 100, Ignatius of Antioch refers to the agape or love-feast.

"It's a neverending love-feast and brawl!"

"But instead of disputing manfully for the Domain as one would expect of hill-men, they are indulging in a love-feast!

It is clear from the New Testament evidence that some primitive Christian ceremonies involved a full meal and the word "agape"(love-feast) is used.

His ancestors' America had been an anxious giant, mobilized for generations against a menace that made the Cold War they'd had here look like a love-feast.

Watchnight, Covenant Service, and the Love-Feast in Early British Methodism.

"And now if you are all done with your love-feast," said Jandria, waspishly, "I would like to bandage this man up again so he will not be bleeding into our breakfast!"

There was still another form, brief and expressive: DEAR COLONEL,-- No, this is a love-feast; when you call a lodge of sorrow send for me.

Harris's 1859 story, "Love-Feast of Varmints," mocked the Opposition Party's state convention, using anthropomorphic animals to portray party leaders such as John Bell, Henry S. Foote and Neill Brown.

But they draw the wrong lesson: at Ronald Reagan's morning-in-America love-feast in Dallas in 1984, his managers' decision to duck substance and to abandon principle led to his Administration's subsequent drift, deterioration and decline.

With cheerfully pledged wine-cup, hobnobbing to the Reign of Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood, with their wives in best ribands, with their little ones romping round, the Citoyens, in frugal Love-feast, sit there.

These included his four-part story, "Love-Feast of Varmints," which lampooned the Opposition Party's March 1859 Nashville convention, and three Sut Lovingood tales in 1861 which attacked President Abraham Lincoln.

These included charges of incest and cannibalism, probably resulting from garbled accounts of the rites which Christians celebrated in necessary secrecy, being the agape (the 'love-feast') and the Eucharist (partaking of the body and blood of Christ).

They implore for the dead eternal peace and a place of refreshment (refrigerium), invite to the heavenly love-feast (Agape), and wish the departed the speedy enjoyment of the light of Paradise, and the fellowship of God and the saints.

Moving on to Ignatius of Antioch, Barrett states that here we find a sharp distinction between 'presbyter' and 'bishop': the latter now stands out as "an isolated figure" who is to be obeyed and without whom it is not lawful to baptise or hold a love-feast.

But his standing with the French is not entirely a love feast.

But the scene was not the love feast of which authors may dream.

It was now the fourth day of the Love Feast.

And until my uncle returned it was a continual love feast.

'You just go off and have a love feast with the Lord.'

But last fall's love feast turned to trouble.

This year was a love feast by comparison.

The most obvious was that good prices are commanded on the Love Feast.

The intimate dinner for 24 people was a capitalist-Marxist love feast of sorts.

Don't get hung up in a free-trade love feast.

"A perfect love feast from the instant you arrived.

The stage performers glutted themselves on the love feast.

Let me say that Mr. Woiwode has a love feast with childhood.

Congregations typically hold love feast on Maundy Thursday and again about six months later.

The love feast: How good, natural, wholesome food can create a warm and lasting Christian family.

Quite a love feast, thought Hardin.

This... this American love feast was too much for a native Filipino.

They also took part in love feasts which allowed for the sharing of testimony, a key feature of early Methodists.

These were day-long, open air meetings involving public praying, preaching and Love Feasts.

After his conversion in 1738 he introduced the Love Feast to the Methodist Church.

The Brethren love feast is a conscious imitation of Jesus' last supper with his disciples.

"Not to throw cold water on this love feast," Jack said to David, "but you do remember Mao?

Run Restaurant has a faint air of a Krishna Consciousness love feast circa 1968.

For at least as long as the love feast lasts, unions say they are willing to join the President in his appeal for sacrifice.

Patti interrupted the love feast.