When they had taken their places at table according to their rank, the feast began.

My hostess had me seated at her right hand, and the feast began.

It was one of his last really coherent thoughts, for with the sunset the feast began.

The feast had already begun and the conversation was going on in the liveliest way from one end of the table to the other.

So the feast was beginning and the watchman had been given his portion.

When the feast began, everyone leapt to their feet, paper plates in hand, and hustled around the table.

For a change, there was relative quiet today as the post-Ramadan feast began.

He must pass away the time for me till the feast begins.

"Then let the feast begin," he declared, slapping his hands together.

At this time also the reference was added to 'the Standing Silence' before the feast began.