Both Uses of
revel
in
The Scarlet Pimpernel
- Marguerite had hailed the notion of it with delight....Sir Percy was an enthusiastic whip; his four thoroughbreds, which had been sent down to Dover a couple of days before, were just sufficiently fresh and restive to add zest to the expedition and Marguerite revelled in anticipation of the few hours of solitude, with the soft night breeze fanning her cheeks, her thoughts wandering, whither away?†
Chpt 9 *unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans do not repeat the "L" prior to adding the "ED".
- she would have revelled in the calm and stillness of this lonely spot, a calm, broken only at intervals by the strident and mournful cry of some distant gull, and by the creaking of the wheels, some way down the road: she would have loved the cool atmosphere, the peaceful immensity of Nature, in this lonely part of the coast: but her heart was too full of cruel foreboding, of a great ache and longing for a being who had become infinitely dear to her.†
Chpt 27
Definitions:
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(1)
(revel) to take delight in
or:
to party -- especially in a noisy way -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely today (though common in classic literature), revel can be used as a noun that is a synonym for party -- as when Shakespeare wrote "I delight in masques and revels sometimes."