Unrestrained merrymaking

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CHAPTER XLIX LAETITIA AND SIR WILLOUGHBY We cannot be abettors of the tribes of imps whose revelry is in the frailties of our poor human constitution.

And that night there was a great feast in Cair Paravel, and revelry and dancing, and gold flashed and wine flowed, and answering to the music inside, but stranger, sweeter, and more piercing, came the music of the sea people.

I tried to slip by the revelry, and could have done so with ease, what with the citterns and the clatter of cups and the boasts.

With it she has stopped drunken revelry from spreading below this floor many times.

Parian had put it there she was certain, forcing this night of revelry upon her, just as he and her uncle had taken her away from the shieling the day before.

Cameron decided to enjoy the revelry of a tourney, and so stated that he proposed to give each girl a dozen over the bottom first with the birch, then an equal dozen with the tawse, and that she who least cried out during the flogging would earn the recompense of his embraces.

The unie bumped lightly against the ceiling, besotted with his revelry.

The musicians ceased playing, and in the place of the noisy, effervescent revelry of the previous half hour, a subdued murmur filled all the barn, a mingling of whispers, lowered voices, the coming and going of light footsteps, the uneasy shifting of positions, while from behind the closed doors of the harness room came a prolonged, sullen hum of anger and strenuous debate.

Laying her head in her rounded arms she wept, until distant shouts of ribald revelry roused her to her own danger.

Then, armed with rope ladders attached to grappling hooks, they crept up on the castle in the dead of night and silently scaled the walls, silencing the sentries and taking the garrison by surprise in the midst of their Shrove Tuesday revelry.

In the clear and rosy air, sparkling with a single star, the sharp and spiry cypress-tree rises like a gloomy thought, amid the flow of revelry.

Than lead the wretched revelry Where fools at swinish troughs carouse.

When such capers were cut at Whitehall, we may imagine what the revelry was in the Bankside taverns.

Faster and faster the drums beat, calling the college of Druids to Beltane revelries.

She stared at the bed from one of the plush chairs, listening to the ebbing revelry in the banquet room far below and wondering what it would be like to share her sheets with Akeela.