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  • Sometimes a stack of people would come there, horseback, from ten or fifteen mile around, and stay five or six days, and have such junketings round about and on the river, and dances and picnics in the woods daytimes, and balls at the house nights.†  (source)
    junketings = trips taken for pleasure and paid for by someone else
  • When I and my poor man were jined in it we kept up the junketing all the week, and drunk the parish dry, and had to borrow half a crown to begin housekeeping!†  (source)
  • A major sea nearly unknown to the ancients, except perhaps the Carthaginians, those Dutchmen of antiquity who went along the west coasts of Europe and Africa on their commercial junkets!†  (source)
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  • It was the usual end-of-session junket season.†  (source)
  • old Eester;" shouted the well-known voice of her husband, from the plain beneath; "ar' you keeping your junkets, while we are finding you in venison and buffaloe beef?†  (source)
  • Lors, it's as good as a junketing to 'em when they see me wi' my pack, an' I shall niver pick up such bargains for 'em again.†  (source)
  • Junket was made with white tablets that came out of a tube, and served with a dollop of grape jelly on the top.†  (source)
  • Neighbours and friends, though bride and bridegroom wants For to supply the places at the table, You know there wants no junkets at the feast.†  (source)
  • It is easy for him to talk of reparation, fresh from journeying and junketing in foreign lands, and living a life of vanity and pleasure.†  (source)
  • There were two tables of travel agents on a junket from Toronto—they thought Lenny was a Scottish comic who did impressions of the royal family.†  (source)
  • "We workfolk shall have some lordly junketing to-night," said Cainy Ball, casting forth his thoughts in a new direction.†  (source)
  • The junket for the visit by the joint Chiefs and the Select Armed Services Committee had been a nightmare to arrange.†  (source)
  • So Great New York Times printed: LUNAR "UNDERSECRETARY" SAYS: "FOOD BELONGS TO HUNGRY" New York Today—O'Kelly Davis, soi-disant "Colonel of the Armed Forces of Free Luna" here on a junket to stir up support for the insurgents in the F.N. Lunar colonies, said in a voluntary statement to this paper that the "Freedom from Hunger" clause in the Grand Charter applied to the Lunar grain shipments— I asked Prof how should have handled?†  (source)
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