bean-feast

"This 'ere ain't a bean-feast where you gets the bag of nuts."

No Man's Land 1912

Mr. Keith was apt to be a bore, but he could do things properly when he wanted, as for example on the occasion of his annual bean-feast.

South Wind Norman Douglas 1910

He's a pretty figurehead for a bean-feast, isn't he?

Aladdin of London or, Lodestar Max Pemberton 1906

A number of men went out together on a bean-feast.

Amusements in Mathematics Henry Ernest Dudeney 1893

Carriages were chartered, an enormous quantity of eatables and drinkables provided, and away we went, a regular wayzgoose or bean-feast party.

The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Frank T. Bullen 1886

"It's wery likely some fire company's men marching to a bean-feast, or a freemason's funeral obscenities," replied the alderman.

The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life Robert Cruikshank 1828

For the past five days, we have witnessed the joys of the hung parliaments we would get under PR: a media bean-feast, private meetings in closed rooms, and tired men getting even more tired.

Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

For the past five days, we have witnessed the joys of the hung parliaments we would get under PR: a media bean-feast, private meetings in closed rooms, and tired men getting even more tired.

Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

o 'this would turn the ship into a Hayti bean-feast.

Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900

a servant at the Man and Plough, is ill too, and they sent up for me this morning; it seems a touch of low fever, -- nothing really infectious, though; but the men from the soap-works are having their bean-feast, and all the folks are too busy to pay Janet much attention. '

Uncle Max Rosa Nouchette Carey 1874