Kermess

She sat down, her face turned toward the windows so that she could see all the merry-makers on their way from the village to the kermess and hear their gay talk. ❋ Various (N/A)

"Had it anything to do with the society for which Monsieur Desvanneaux asked me to appear in a kermess?" ❋ Various (N/A)

In the movement and the noise of the kermess she said: ❋ Various (N/A)

The insolent wench looked at her derisively, and called out, "That will give you a good appetite for the kermess, Miss Prude." ❋ Various (N/A)

Most of the inhabitants, with the exception of the children and decrepit old people, were more than four miles away at the kermess. ❋ Various (N/A)

"Do you guarantee the solvency of this person?" demanded M. Desvanneaux, who saw the project of the kermess falling to the ground. ❋ Various (N/A)

But the curtain rose on the kermess scene and Richard made a sign to the stage-manager to go away. ❋ Unknown (1911)

Fortunately for his peace, his former owner was killed in a drunken brawl at the kermess of Mechlin, and so sought not after him nor disturbed him in his new and well-loved home. ❋ William Black (1869)

She had neither brother nor sister; her blue serge dress had never a hole in it; at kermess she had as many gilded nuts and Agni Dei in sugar as her hands could hold; and when she went up for her first communion her flaxen curls were covered with a cap of richest Mechlin lace, which had been her mother's and her grandmother's before it came to her. ❋ William Black (1869)

It was the last day before kermess away at Louvain, and the Brabantois was in haste to reach the fair and get a good place for his truck of brass wares. ❋ William Black (1869)

The last of this tremendous frolicking in Europe died out with the last yearly _kermess_ in Amsterdam, and it was indeed wonderful to see with what utter _abandon_ the usually stolid Dutch flung themselves into a rushing tide of frantic gayety. ❋ Charles Godfrey Leland (1863)

At Amsterdam we saw the last grand kermess or annual fair ever held there. ❋ Charles Godfrey Leland (1863)

a sort of kermess of Colonial and Indian dances with tableaux, and ever since, from year to year, the wonder has grown; Zeus, and Venus, and King Arthur have all held court and revel on the ❋ Florence Converse (1919)

a grand kermess, with the assistance of the principal artists from the theatres of Paris, including that of Mademoiselle Gontier, of the ❋ Philippe Massa (1871)

In order to realize this sum, the committee of action proposes to organize at the Palais de l'Industrie a grand kermess, with the assistance of the principal artists from the theatres of Paris, including that of Mademoiselle Gontier, of the Comedie Francaise, "added the secretary, with a sly smile on observing the expression of General de ❋ Various (N/A)