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  • But there was no air of spent revelry about him.†   (source)
  • The most horrifying crime he committed occurred at a local pub. The victims were posed in various places throughout the bar—some standing, some sitting, and some engaged in a kind of revelry on the dance floor.†   (source)
  • With Saphira by his side, he left the sounds of revelry behind and walked to Nasuada's pavilion, breathing deeply of the cool evening air to clear his head.†   (source)
  • But first they wanted to humiliate him by making his revelries look tame!†   (source)
  • There was no sound of revelry anywhere, only silence, no help anywhere if not in this bed, violation by the bridegroom's body her only hope.†   (source)
  • At which point the revelry mixed with meanness abated and King Walker handed Milkman his Winchester .†   (source)
  • Sounds of revelry traveled to him at night from the officers' club and kept him awake often as he turned and tossed on his cot in passive, half-voluntary exile.†   (source)
  • He dipped his head and returned to the revelry.†   (source)
  • The sun had long set on the day after the celebration, but Cesar, Lucky, Jose and their cronies continued the revelry deep into the night.†   (source)
  • There is much revelry on my account.†   (source)
  • The sounds of rape and revelry diminished as they climbed, until there was only the soft scrape of boots on stone.†   (source)
  • Many companies of troops and militia were hurrying to their posts, but there also were brawls, untold looters, and some who chose to greet Prusias's arrival with doomed, drunken revelry.†   (source)
  • Logically, each man knows that there must be plenty of Confederate sympathizers in Washington, huddled in their homes with jaws clenched as they endure the revelry.†   (source)
  • Only Gabriel seemed to withhold himself from the revelry.†   (source)
  • It was George who first learned they had an apartment, and he immediately proposed that he and I try to turn it into a center for Bohemian weekend revelry with our male friends and any women Jennie and Mimi chose to admit.†   (source)
  • Once all hands had been presented to the Gordon, Hero First Class, we adjourned to get ready for the banquet that Jocko, cheated of his three months of revelry, had swapped for his first intention.†   (source)
  • The grotesque revelries continued.†   (source)
  • Actually, it was the sound of great revelry, and there was golden light ahead.†   (source)
  • He waited for the song and the revelry to die.†   (source)
  • Eragon joined the revelry with an abandon that surprised him.†   (source)
  • Oh, much of it's mere revelry," replied Mr. Bonn.†   (source)
  • The tall, ungainly girl left the hall with long strides, almost unnoticed amidst the revelry.†   (source)
  • Sure, Dionysus was the god of revelry and out-of-control parties.†   (source)
  • After their going, there was still some revelry.†   (source)
  • That night, as a personal contribution to the revelry, Fermina Daza went down to the galley amid the ovations of the crew and prepared a dish for everyone that she created and that Florentino Ariza christened Eggplant al Amor.†   (source)
  • The revelry, which went on all night, was so riotous that one man marveled at the fact that all the POWs were still alive when the sun came up.†   (source)
  • Then he put on a rented cape, and the two of them joined the dancing in the Plaza of the Customhouse, and enjoyed themselves like newborn sweethearts, for her indifference went to the opposite extreme in the uproar of the night: she danced like a professional, she was imaginative and daring in her revelry, and she had devastating charm.†   (source)
  • She heard the accordions in her detours around disenchantment, she heard the shouts from the cockfighting pits, the bursts of gunfire that could just as well signal war as revelry, and when she had no other recourse and had to pass through a village, she covered her face with her mantilla so that she could remember it as it once had been.†   (source)
  • Those humble replicas of the revelry of former times served to show Aureliano Segundo himself how much his spirits had declined and to what a degree his skill as a masterful carouser had dried up.†   (source)
  • The walls of the keep were thick, yet even so, they could hear the muffled sounds of revelry from the yard outside.†   (source)
  • It is, in fact, a heavy, ponderous, de facto State of the Union address, specifically designed to undercut the revelry and prepare America for years of more pain and struggle.†   (source)
  • Just as he never believed that Mauricio Babilonia had gone into the yard to steal chickens, but both expedients served to ease his conscience, and thus he could go back without remorse under the shadow of Petra Cotes, where he revived his noisy revelry and unlimited gourmandizing.†   (source)
  • Both looked back then on the wild revelry, the gaudy wealth, and the unbridled fornication as an annoyance and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to fund the paradise of shared solitude.†   (source)
  • For the world called to the heart, which stammered to reply; life, and love, and revelry, and, most falsely, hope, called the forgetful, the human heart.†   (source)
  • Two of the prince's courtiers were dispatched across town to deliver an invitation to late dining and revelry to the Shan of Irabek, an old man and distant neighbor of Siddhartha's with whom he had fought three bloody border skirmishes and occasionally hunted tiger.†   (source)
  • The retainers and guests then combined into a single procession and moved off through the town in the direction of the dark pavilion of Yama, where great feasting and revelry was held, and where the Masque of Blood was presented.†   (source)
  • So they waited, and the three dozen men returned with empty pouches, gathered their belongings, mounted their horses and one by one drifted off through the town, as though in search of revelry, but actually drifting slowly in a southeasterly direction.†   (source)
  • Down from the grove, with the marshes at its back, toward the town of Alundil, above which lurked the hills of rock and around which lay the blue-green fields, into the town of Alundil, still astir with travelers, many of them at the height of their revelry, up the streets of Alundil toward the hill with its Temple, walked the Buddha.†   (source)
  • A mood of revelry suddenly took possession of her.†   (source)
  • There was the rustling of autumn winds, a whispering breath of departed revelry: carnival was almost done.†   (source)
  • The holy-days, which had been occasions of revelry under Padre Gallegos, were now days of austere devotion.†   (source)
  • "Western revelry," mused Miss Hammond, as she left the window.†   (source)
  • By midnight the revelry was at its height.†   (source)
  • In spite of all this, the spirit of revelry was wanting in the atmosphere of the house.†   (source)
  • Hark! the infernal orgies! that revelry is forward! mark the unfaltering silence aft!†   (source)
  • [A BURST OF REVELRY FROM THE FORECASTLE.†   (source)
  • I resign, the evening seemed to say, as it paled and faded above the battlements and prominences, moulded, pointed, of hotel, flat, and block of shops, I fade, she was beginning, I disappear, but London would have none of it, and rushed her bayonets into the sky, pinioned her, constrained her to partnership in her revelry.†   (source)
  • The sublimities, the perpetuities, might have left him as he was: but this tent pitched for a day's revelry spread a roof of oblivion between himself and his fixed sky.†   (source)
  • "There was a sound of revelry by night," and "The Raven"; how during the delivery she would knit her little brows and glare round tragically, and say to the empty air, as if some real creature stood there— "Ghastly, grim, and ancient Raven, wandering from the Nightly shore, Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!"†   (source)
  • When his wife first proposed that they should give Mattie an occasional evening out he had inwardly demurred at having to do the extra two miles to the village and back after his hard day on the farm; but not long afterward he had reached the point of wishing that Starkfield might give all its nights to revelry.†   (source)
  • It was mid-April, and one felt that the revelry had reached its climax and that the desultory groups in the square and gardens would soon dissolve and re-form in other scenes.†   (source)
  • There has been much howling and ungodly revelry, together with such sounds as it is profanity to utter, in their habitations within the past hour, so much so, in truth, that I have fled to the Delawares in search of peace.†   (source)
  • Then the colonel, who began to show signs of feebleness, sat down on a bench in the courtyard and began demonstrating to Yashvin the superiority of Russia over Poland, especially in cavalry attack, and there was a lull in the revelry for a moment.†   (source)
  • The effect on our heroine was much as if she had found herself an observer of the revelries of demons.†   (source)
  • MUSAGETES Among this witches' revelry His way one gladly loses; And, truly, it would easier be Than to command the Muses.†   (source)
  • She started sometimes, when the sudden opening of the dining-room door let loose a wild shout of noisy revelry, and more than once rose in great alarm, as a fancied footstep on the staircase impressed her with the fear that some stray member of the party was returning alone.†   (source)
  • When the revelry of his companions had mounted to its height, this man slipped away unobserved, and I saw no more of him till he became my comrade on the sea.†   (source)
  • From the village were heard the distant sounds of revelry, mixed occasionally with loud laughter, sometimes broken by screams, and sometimes by wild strains of distant music.†   (source)
  • He continued to find it all extremely agreeable; but the most agreeable things have an end, and the revelry on this occasion began to deepen to a close.†   (source)
  • That the quiet Elizabeth, who had long ago appraised life at a moderate value, and who knew in spite of her maidenhood that marriage was as a rule no dancing matter, should have had zest for this revelry surprised him still more.†   (source)
  • The blacksmiths from a neighboring smithy, hearing the sounds of revelry in the tavern and supposing it to have been broken into, wished to force their way in too and a fight in the porch had resulted.†   (source)
  • But at night came his revelry: at night he closed his shutters, and made fast his doors, and drew forth his gold.†   (source)
  • The prisoner's first feeling was of joy at again breathing the pure air—for air is freedom; but he soon sighed, for he passed before La Reserve, where he had that morning been so happy, and now through the open windows came the laughter and revelry of a ball.†   (source)
  • In the fullness of their revelry, they fluttered, chirping and frolicking from bush to bush, and tree to tree, capricious from the very profusion and variety around them.†   (source)
  • ' "The policy of courts," he continued, turning to the two other sisters, "drew ye from your peaceful home to scenes of revelry and splendour.†   (source)
  • —I also have had my hours of vengeance—I have fomented the quarrels of our foes, and heated drunken revelry into murderous broil—I have seen their blood flow—I have heard their dying groans!†   (source)
  • Supper was his favourite meal, because it came at his time of revelry, when his heart warmed over his gold; whenever he had roast-meat, he always chose to have it for supper.†   (source)
  • To the young and wild nobles, he held out the prospect of unpunished license and uncontrolled revelry; to the ambitious, that of power, and to the covetous, that of increased wealth and extended domains.†   (source)
  • …bit by bit, and day by day, and year by year, the baron got the worst of some disputed question, or was slyly unhorsed from some old hobby; and that by the time he was a fat hearty fellow of forty-eight or thereabouts, he had no feasting, no revelry, no hunting train, and no hunting—nothing in short that he liked, or used to have; and that, although he was as fierce as a lion, and as bold as brass, he was decidedly snubbed and put down, by his own lady, in his own castle of Grogzwig.†   (source)
  • Like one who after a night of drunken revelry hies to his bed, still reeling, but with conscience yet pricking him, as the plungings of the Roman race-horse but so much the more strike his steel tags into him; as one who in that miserable plight still turns and turns in giddy anguish, praying God for annihilation until the fit be passed; and at last amid the whirl of woe he feels, a deep stupor steals over him, as over the man who bleeds to death, for conscience is the wound, and…†   (source)
  • —Here—here I dwelt, till age, premature age, has stamped its ghastly features on my countenance—scorned and insulted where I was once obeyed, and compelled to bound the revenge which had once such ample scope, to the efforts of petty malice of a discontented menial, or the vain or unheeded curses of an impotent hag—condemned to hear from my lonely turret the sounds of revelry in which I once partook, or the shrieks and groans of new victims of oppression.†   (source)
  • And thus, while the one ship went cheerily before the breeze, the other stubbornly fought against it; and so the two vessels parted; the crew of the Pequod looking with grave, lingering glances towards the receding Bachelor; but the Bachelor's men never heeding their gaze for the lively revelry they were in.†   (source)
  • Meantime, forget this new-fall'n dignity, And fall into our rustic revelry:— Play, music!†   (source)
  • *talked big* Then were there younge poore scholars two, That dwelled in the hall of which I say; Testif* they were, and lusty for to play; *headstrong <6> And only for their mirth and revelry Upon the warden busily they cry, To give them leave for but a *little stound*, *short time* To go to mill, and see their corn y-ground: And hardily* they durste lay their neck, *boldly The miller should not steal them half a peck Of corn by sleight, nor them by force bereave* *take away And at the…†   (source)
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