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  • For much of that first year in law school, I reveled in the fact that I was the only big marine with a Southern twang at my elite law school.†   (source)
  • Thousands of avatars came to every show, to sit in the stands and revel in the audience participation.†   (source)
  • The revelers were wearing masks.†   (source)
  • She taught me to revel.†   (source)
  • If anything, Adler seemed to revel in Williams's predicament.†   (source)
  • But the issue is to accept who you are and revel in that.†   (source)
  • The tightness in her chest abated only slightly when she couldn't find Cain's face among the revelers.†   (source)
  • Of course, Grandmother would have complained bitterly about the party revelers—and about such a "sundry" guest list, given the diverse personalities and social stations of a typical Dan Needham cast; but Grandmother would, at least, have been occupied.†   (source)
  • As he got out of bed, he reveled in the honor of the job before him.†   (source)
  • Du Hai reveled in the new phrase he had learned from the newspaper.†   (source)
  • Long ago, before the war, before Wandsworth, he used to revel in his freedom to make his own life, devise his own story with only the distant help of Jack Tallis.†   (source)
  • He was reveling in feelings he should not have allowed himself to feel.†   (source)
  • They seem to revel in it, using their superhuman strength to toss other champions around like rag dolls.†   (source)
  • Reveling in the removal of his Trace, Harry sent Ron's possessions flying around the room, causing Pigwidgeon to wake up and flutter excitedly around his cage.†   (source)
  • Jet-lagged and exhausted, we went to sleep early—or rather we went to our beds and lay in them with pillows covering our heads to block out the thumping cacophony that issued through the floorboards, which grew so loud that at one point I thought surely the revelers had invaded my room.†   (source)
  • The Rat Man's face screwed up to look even rattier, as if he reveled in telling bad news.†   (source)
  • Down by the river, the revels were only now beginning to dwindle and die.†   (source)
  • She crested the hill, reveling in the rush of escape, of freedom, of power—and then the torrent began.†   (source)
  • Allie knew by his silence that he was thinking about her and found that she reveled in it.†   (source)
  • Revel in their victory, especially over me.†   (source)
  • Others seem to revel in her humiliation.†   (source)
  • She wondered when he had last gotten a full night's sleep, one without tormenting dreams or long periods of dark wakefulness, listening to revels that had only become audible — and visible — to her in the last couple of days, as the Overlook's grip on the three of them tightened.†   (source)
  • To revel in the pull, the attraction.†   (source)
  • Their tail whipped in the air, and their joined minds reveled in the experience.†   (source)
  • It might be argued that the Siamese-twin infants of word/idea are the only contribution the human species can, will, or should make to the reveling cosmos.†   (source)
  • In a lot of ways, living with Charlie was like having my own place, and I found myself reveling in the aloneness instead of being lonely.†   (source)
  • Holmes possessed Julia now as fully as if she were an antebellum slave, and he reveled in his possession.†   (source)
  • There were ten or so members of the circus, all of them visible at all times, all of them wearing threadbare costumes that reveled in their antique humility.†   (source)
  • Across the town square I pedaled, over the canal on the Grote Hout bridge and along the Wagenweg, reveling in the thin winter sunshine.†   (source)
  • In the harsh, hot wind, I heard Set laughing, reveling in his power.†   (source)
  • They darted past shocked and terrified late-night revelers, skirted rats and mice without stopping to feed, ignored birds nests.†   (source)
  • I reveled in being Uncle Randy, the guy who showed up in their lives every month or so to help them look at their world from strange new angles.†   (source)
  • The elevation of this place seemed to magnify the heavens, and Mack reveled in seeing stars in such numbers and clarity.†   (source)
  • I reveled in the feel of the ground through my shoes, the taste of the air, the quiet hush of wind brushing through the spring wheat in the fields.†   (source)
  • We revel in our collective misery but I also worry about whether my job will exist as long as I need it to.†   (source)
  • "There are ways for a human to join the faerie revels," Isabelle, who had been eavesdropping, put in.†   (source)
  • By October San Piedro had slipped off its summer reveler's mask to reveal a torpid, soporific dreamer whose winter bed was made of wet green moss.†   (source)
  • Knowing there were soap bars by the dozen, bacon by the rasher, and reveling in her shiny pots and pans and polished floors.†   (source)
  • She shouted the last to the revelers.†   (source)
  • From long and close association (in her solitary teens Dr. Finch had tried to make a scholar of her) Jean Louise had developed enough understanding of his subjects to follow him most of the time, and she reveled in his conversation.†   (source)
  • Peter-who'd been reveling in the miracle that here was Josie, again, like she used to be-watched her turn to Matt.†   (source)
  • I felt good about myself and reveled in my new-found ability to handle my life independently.†   (source)
  • It was a clear, cool day and I reveled in the beauty of the Natal countryside; even in winter, Natal remains green.†   (source)
  • I pretend it's a tropical shower, shaking my head and reveling in it.†   (source)
  • Could I learn to revel in being a Mask?†   (source)
  • I often reveled in that feeling.†   (source)
  • It is a time to revel in the eternal sea and the warm rains that soothe us, as well as the verdant land that surrounds and keeps us.†   (source)
  • Makes you stink, makes you think, she would say, reveling in how ugly that sounded.†   (source)
  • Yes, the Klan was a secret society, reveling in passwords and cloak-and-dagger ploys, but its real power lay in the very public fear that it fostered, exemplified by the open secret that the Ku Klux Klan and the law-enforcement establishment were brothers in arms.†   (source)
  • That was how the relationship ofjolly comradeship was born between father and daughter, which freed him for a time from the bitter solitude of his revels and freed her from Fernanda's watchful eye without necessity of provoking the domestic crisis that seemed inevitable by then.†   (source)
  • I would revel in the complete darkness of B Dorm, listening to forty-eight other women breathe in a polyrhythm of deep sleep as I prepared the right measures of instant coffee, sugar, and Cremora.†   (source)
  • That this should happen here, in public, in the high revel of event—he feels a puzzled wonder that exceeds his aversion.†   (source)
  • The clear fall weather made the long days of work pleasant and Mortenson reveled in the tangible results every evening as he measured how many blocks they'd managed to set that day.†   (source)
  • Goldie didn't smother her son in sadness, but encouraged him to revel in life's joys.†   (source)
  • I curtsied, reveling in her fury.†   (source)
  • He may not revel in the pain he caused himself, but at least he could say that he chose it.†   (source)
  • It was the kind of fraternity reveler's voice that had made me feel that, as a student at Syracuse University, I might never fit in.†   (source)
  • The curandera arrived along with several Indians from her tribe, who began to weep for the deceased when she gave the order, and did not stop until the reveling was over three days later.†   (source)
  • Deserted by Milo, they trudged homelessly through the reveling masses in futile search of a place to sleep.†   (source)
  • He revels in his physical superiority even to a woman who is eighty.†   (source)
  • I had seen Lupito murdered … I had seen Ultima's cure … I had seen the men come to hang her … I had seen the awful fight just now … I had seen and reveled in the beauty of the golden carp!†   (source)
  • His enemies had reveled in his misfortune.†   (source)
  • It drove our neighbor Mr. Kramer to high blood pressure, but my father reveled in it.†   (source)
  • I think he reveled in it.†   (source)
  • Basil had been returned to her, and she reveled in his presence.†   (source)
  • Only the most dedicated revelers had been in the streets when the explosions began, but sailors sleeping on the floors of wineshops had dragged themselves out and were making their way, with the rest of the curious populace, down to the docks.†   (source)
  • While the smee reveled in his wit, Max caught sight of a large figure making its way carefully down the many stairs from Rowan's cliffs.†   (source)
  • Archie reveled in the moment, basking in Carter's admiration, Carter who had humiliated him at The Vigils meeting.†   (source)
  • But JFK studies each ward in the district, reveling in his role as the underdog.†   (source)
  • My toes clutch the tiny blades, revel in the softness and the damp earth beneath my feet.†   (source)
  • I revel in relief.†   (source)
  • While she reveled in the excitement, she could anticipate the glory of the aftermath.†   (source)
  • While the creatures revel in their new power, she steals the dagger and runs quickly to the Order.†   (source)
  • So you saw Kwang in news spots talking with Hispanic youths at a boys' club in Washington Heights, amongst the revelers in black tie at a plush Manhattan hotel party, playing miniature golf with union bosses in Staten Island, walking the streets with black church leaders in Bedford-Stuyvesant.†   (source)
  • Kessell reveled in the moment.†   (source)
  • He ate hot eggs, warm bread, reveled in steaming tea, although the water from which the tea was made left an aftertaste in the mouth, afterthoughts in the brain: from what nearby barn?†   (source)
  • They made no attempt to alter the striking Americana of the setting—indeed, they seemed to revel in it.†   (source)
  • Dug in there though the tough years, reveled in the good.†   (source)
  • Randy and Mark would crouch under the rear window, behind the pulpit, fascinated and wide-eyed, while Preacher Henry described the Babylonian revels, including fornication.†   (source)
  • Such Corybantic revels as envisioned by the first owners never took place, however, since through some incredible oversight the raunchy entrepreneurs failed to realize that they had located their establishment in a neighborhood substantially as devoted to order and propriety as a community of Hard Shell Baptists or Mennonites.†   (source)
  • The days that followed were golden, and Spring and Summer joined and made revel together in the fields of Gondor.†   (source)
  • So I rejoiced, smoking. drinking and reveling in the light of that which had occurred.†   (source)
  • I reveled in fantasies in which I was that knight.†   (source)
  • I reveled in class discussion and the Socratic method of drawing substance out of calcified minds untrained to think.†   (source)
  • How did I hate this world of the rich, of those who revel in fine food, of the gamblers!†   (source)
  • Like Charles James Fox, he reveled in a love for life, and had a matchless gift for winning and holding the hearts of his fellow-countrymen—and women.†   (source)
  • I ate everything up, not quickly, but reveling in the taste, the flavors lush on my tongue.†   (source)
  • I dare say we rivaled any faerie revel you can bring to mind.†   (source)
  • I lay in bed, my mind wandering and my body reveling in the softness.†   (source)
  • At the moment he's entirely unguarded and free, reveling in his own resurrection.†   (source)
  • She put it on, reveling in the softness of the leather.†   (source)
  • As much as Serena detested her former in-laws, she reveled in her connection to them.†   (source)
  • He possessed them all and reveled in his possession.†   (source)
  • After months of failure, this moment was his only chance to revel in some victory.†   (source)
  • It was very late but Firstsite Common still had its share of revelers.†   (source)
  • I slid my hands to familiar places and reveled in her delicious smell.†   (source)
  • I wondered if he also reveled in the warmth of being this close again.†   (source)
  • A few revelers had decayed bodies with gray flesh, matted clumps of hair, and nasty wounds.†   (source)
  • As usual, they held hands most of the day, reveling in each other's company.†   (source)
  • How I used to revel in such bitter little snobberies myself; how eay they were, once.†   (source)
  • His revels are tame compared to what I can do.†   (source)
  • He reveled in the knowledge that Elizabeth had forgiven him.†   (source)
  • They revel in the touch of parental hands on their faces.†   (source)
  • He dashed onto the track and immediately disappeared in the swirling masses of revelers.†   (source)
  • They were at about 40,000 feet and he was reveling in the view.†   (source)
  • The master of revels bowed, but Prince Tommen was not so obedient.†   (source)
  • I return to the party, swaying into the masked revelers.†   (source)
  • Take care they do not become the hands of a man who revels in the carnage of war.†   (source)
  • She would hold my hand as we wandered from room to room, both of us reveling as the past came alive.†   (source)
  • As Sheridan revels in the glory to come, Meade bites his tongue and accepts Grant's decision.†   (source)
  • "The patrols will be focused on groups of revelers," I say.†   (source)
  • For the most part, his fellow revelers laughed off the periodic knocks and swats.†   (source)
  • Howard's eyes scanned the faces of the revelers, searching for Smith.†   (source)
  • Revelers march from one place to the next, passing the flask, aimless and amazed.†   (source)
  • I shout, and the revelers stare at this girl who has lost her mind.†   (source)
  • As a brace of Lannister guardsmen led him off, the master of revels approached the box.†   (source)
  • Incredibly, a bleary-eyed Robert E. Lee is reveling in the moment.†   (source)
  • They are out reveling, when they should be preparing my new body?†   (source)
  • And it is not ready because the staff is out reveling?†   (source)
  • People are going to come to this island to revel in stupidity and poverty.†   (source)
  • The dome of Heaven was repaired in several places at the end of the time of the revels.†   (source)
  • I revel in it.†   (source)
  • After the briefest possible discussion of business, Father would draw a small Bible from his traveling case; the wholesaler, whose beard would be even longer and fuller than Father's, would snatch a book or a scroll out of a drawer, clap a prayer cap onto his head; and the two of them would be off, arguing, comparing, interrupting, contradicting—reveling in each other's company.†   (source)
  • Her capacity to savor the change from grammar school was limited; she did not revel in going to different classrooms during the day and being taught by different teachers, nor in knowing that she had a hero for a brother somewhere in the remote senior school.†   (source)
  • As her approach altered her angle of view, the revelers on the lid of an ancient trousseau chest writhed into dance steps.†   (source)
  • They half walked, half ran up the wide dark street thronged with late-night revelers and lined with closed shops, stars twinkling above them.†   (source)
  • I saw a vast hall full of revelers.†   (source)
  • I'll fight when needed, revel when there's occasion, mourn when there is grief, and die if my time comes …. but I won't let anyone use me against my will.†   (source)
  • She was certainly capable of that same self-control during a dinner conversation, and yet there she stood, giving herself over to her anger, almost reveling in it.†   (source)
  • Scared and confused, and visibly intimidated by Annie, he was soon walking down the steps, and across the lawn, dodging revelers.†   (source)
  • But now Tally was headed into the center of the island, where floats and revelers populated the bright streets all night.†   (source)
  • We sat there awhile, holding hands, reveling in the strange new sensation of actually touching one another.†   (source)
  • As new revelers joined the celebration I was introduced as la niña de Baylee, and as quickly accepted.†   (source)
  • In fact, all evidence suggested that Bogart preferred his drinking after midnight— when the orchestra had stopped playing, the barstools had emptied, and the revelers had stumbled off into the night.†   (source)
  • Improbably, he was particularly fond of speaking on cruise ships, sorting through invitations to find a plum voyage, kicking back on the first-class deck with a cool drink in hand, and reveling in the ocean.†   (source)
  • The odor of baked salmon hung stale in the air, slightly bitter and slightly acrid from the long smoldering smoke of burning alder leaves, and lay like an invisible pall over the exhausted revelers.†   (source)
  • As he soared at will over rugged mountains and crystal white seashores, reveling in the missed wonder of dream flight, suddenly something grabbed him by the ankle and tore him out of the sky.†   (source)
  • It was a pair of pantyhose, stuffed with something — toilet paper, no doubt, or underwear — and thrown out of the upstairs window during some Satanic rite or adolescent prank or homeless revel.†   (source)
  • Murray and Lopez compliment Nathaniel when he's done playing, and he responds with an Aw, shucks, clearly reveling in the glory of his growing fan club.†   (source)
  • …into Emily's forties, and how soothing, how fixing they had been; the lanolin soap and thick white bath sheet, the girlish prattle echoing in the steamy bathroom acoustic; enfolding her in the towel, trapping her arms and taking her onto her lap for a moment of babyish helplessness that Briony had reveled in not so long ago; but now baby and bathwater had vanished behind a locked door, though that was rare enough, for the girl always looked in need of a wash and a change of clothes.†   (source)
  • And behind them, carrying flowers and torches, a crowd of revelers in funeral clothes danced round an old-fashioned black hearse as it drove along.†   (source)
  • For two weeks their daughter-an adult now, self-aware and secure in some ways that grown-ups twice her age often failed to be-rested and reveled in being home.†   (source)
  • The revels were still going on out at the Camp Grounds, but not in any form you'd want to witness close up, as the surreptitious consumption of cheap liquor was now in full swing.†   (source)
  • As the revelers of the white nights had already stumbled home and the tram conductors had yet to don their caps, I strolled along Nevsky Prospekt through a stillness of spring that seemed stolen from another province, if not another time.†   (source)
  • Mae looked across the lawn, at the hissing torches arrayed in rows, each row leading revelers to various activities—limbo, kickball, the Electric Slide—none of them related in any way to the solstice.†   (source)
  • His day, really—two days before the official close, but the day when he would get to stand before several thousand mayors from around the country and revel in his stature as mayor of Chicago, the city that built the greatest fair of all time.†   (source)
  • A few of the revelers passed close enough that the sickly sweetness from their bottles filled her nose.†   (source)
  • Around them the Circlers captured the performance on their screens, wanting to remember the very strangeness of this band of homeless-seeming revelers, to document how incongruous it was here at the Circle, amid the carefully considered paths and gardens, amid the people who worked there, who showered regularly, tried to stay at least reasonably fashionable, and who washed their clothes.†   (source)
  • He reveled in the attention and adored the engraved silver "loving cup" that was filled with wine and held to the lips of every man at the table—despite the prevalence in the city outside of typhoid, diphtheria, tuberculosis, and pneumonia.†   (source)
  • Behind it trailed a growing bunch of revelers, dancing along with the beat, drinking and throwing their empty bottles to shatter against the huge, impervious machine.†   (source)
  • At a signal from the master of revels, the combatants couched their lances and put their spurs to their mounts.†   (source)
  • Instead, Lincoln receives the jubilant welcome of former slaves reveling in their first moments of freedom.†   (source)
  • She meant well, but Julie reveled in gossip—from the salacious to the mundane—and often used her position as.†   (source)
  • Or because they were forced to join Galbatorix's army and seek to dull their sense of shame and fear with their revels?†   (source)
  • I wondered which tight suburban road it was, if not this very one, that Anne Hickey should not have driven on late at night when everyone knows the saloon revelers would be speeding to the next place.†   (source)
  • She reveled in the way his gaze traveled over her, and the graceful ease of his body; she was acutely aware of their almost primal understanding of each other.†   (source)
  • "Thank you," she said, hearing the raw emotion in his voice and reveling in the way it made her feel.†   (source)
  • While Gabby and Travis chopped and stirred and conversed quietly about their day, he reveled in the contentment that she had brought him.†   (source)
  • She gave herself over to him then, allowing him to kiss her cheek and her neck, and she leaned back, reveling in the sensation.†   (source)
  • Gradually, the revelers went silent.†   (source)
  • Our conversation drifted easily from one subject to the next, and I reveled in her undivided attention.†   (source)
  • It was the most perfect day we'd spent together in years, and I reveled in the feeling until we returned home and listened to the message on the answering machine.†   (source)
  • While Ben was at his music lesson, she reveled in the slow, steady motion of the swing as she sat beside him.†   (source)
  • The elves had no such inhibitions, though; they welcomed Saphira into their minds, reveling in her presence.†   (source)
  • He chose to allow Yousef to believe that he was now and always a successful man reveling in the sex-drenched cities of America.†   (source)
  • She reveled in the thrill of skin sliding against skin his to hers, hers to his—the heady friction of it.†   (source)
  • There were a number of people already in the streets: merchants going to open their shops, night watchmen on their way to bed, drunk noblemen just emerging from their revels, vagrants sleeping in doorways, as well as soldiers running pell-mell toward the city walls.†   (source)
  • Max knew the hag reveled in trying to frighten them, but he also saw that there was wisdom and hard experience in her words.†   (source)
  • Miss Boon tugged at his sleeve, and Max followed her down the street where Cooper had disappeared, the group swimming against a tide of revelers.†   (source)
  • Nurse Duckett reveled in such attention and ducked her short chestnut bangs with joy when Yossarian and the others focused upon her.†   (source)
  • Forty feet ahead of him, Piper moved through the crowd, smiling and filling wineglasses for the ghostly revelers.†   (source)
  • He reveled in the secure feeling it gave him, the reassuring front-page news stories that told him he truly existed, that he wasn't a twisted figment of his own imagination.†   (source)
  • His contraband entered the house through the service door and exited through the front door on its way to other destinations, where Jean consumed it in secret revels or sold it at exorbitant prices.†   (source)
  • One group of ecstatic revelers was more than a little stunned when Max snarled at them to move even as they clustered around to thank him.†   (source)
  • Old lawyers like Lucien who reveled in dirty tricks and ambushes hated the new rules because they were designed to promote fairness and transparency.†   (source)
  • She whisks me into the back office: she doesn't want me dangling around in the empty gallery, at loose ends while the first revelers trickle in, she doesn't want me looking unsuccessful and too eager.†   (source)
  • Revel in your strength.†   (source)
  • Outside, night still reigned and the sounds of the elves' revels drifted from the glittering city below.†   (source)
  • I reveled in the People's Forums.†   (source)
  • As she said it, she had a clear picture of Clara sitting on the porch while Tuck leaned against a column, reveling in the heady beauty of the wildflower garden.†   (source)
  • It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people, as Álvaro demonstrated during one night of revels.†   (source)
  • After pulling back slightly to make sure she was okay, he kissed her again, and she kissed him back, reveling in the strength of his arms.†   (source)
  • They did not revel in their roles as assassins, preferring to fight sword against sword, but they understood the necessity of this type of raid, and they placed no value whatsoever on the lives of goblin scum.†   (source)
  • I tackle him and rain down punches, growling in satisfaction at the snap of bone beneath my fist, reveling in the blood that sprays across the wall.†   (source)
  • Those wanderings led him to the prostrate redlight district, where in other times bundles of banknotes had been burned to liven up the revels, and which at that time was a maze of streets more afflicted and miserable than the others, with a few red lights still burning and with deserted dance halls adorned with the remnants of wreaths, where the pale, fat widows of no one, the French great-grandmothers and the Babylonian matriarchs, were still waiting beside their photographs.†   (source)
  • But tonight, the thousands of revelers called another name, chanting it with a wild, maniacal enthusiasm.†   (source)
  • He allowed himself to revel in satisfaction over having accomplished such a difficult feat, albeit with assistance from Roran and Saphira.†   (source)
  • As they held each other, he reveled in how good she felt, certain again of how much she meant to him, wondering what the future would hold.†   (source)
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