What is "revel"

Usage examples of "revel".

She grasped his shoulders then, moving her legs, reveling in the abrasive feel of his hair roughened skin against the softness of her thighs.

And another theory on Smith is he feeds on the female adulation in one part of his lifeand revels in it.

Having grown accustomed to his part, Alec was clearly beginning to revel in it.

Ipn Revelling But Rhal was clearly less put off than Alec had intended.

I could see that she wished me to play my part in the revels, but my disgust had utterly deprived me of all my amorous faculties.

She reveled in the adoring ardency of his kiss, overwhelmed by the knowledge that of all the women he could have chosen, Lane Canfield wanted to marry her.

He was ashamed to revel in sweetmeats alone, and as he was fond of his gray-haired landlady, a woman old as the hills, he would share them with her.

Quimbleton, poor bereaved fellow, would sit by me in the dusk and revel with the spirit of his dear comrade.

Her thoughts drifted away into a wordless, luxurious reveling in the bodiless state, free from distractions, carefree and disconnected.

But they did not really see the lake till they had taken the train for Niagara Falls, after breakfasting in the depot, where the children, used to the severe native or the patronizing Irish ministrations of Boston restaurants and hotels, reveled for the first time in the affectionate devotion of a black waiter.

Paul was irresistible in his drollery, and whether it was mimicry or original humour, you could not but revel in its quaint conceits.

Here beneath awnings and columned porticoes men and women were revelling on this festal night, for as yet news of what had chanced in the great hall did not appear to have reached them.

Friday penance sessions in the gymnasium continued to delight him and prevent his boredom, for he attended them from his secret hiding place in the Snuggery and, at times, just as we have already described, crept out when the culprits were blindfold and pinioned, to feel their bosoms and bottoms and sometimes even, when the mood seized him, to fustigate their plump white backsides and revel in their squirmings and sobbing pleas for pardon.

It was not just that she was a gleaner in the Revel, someone with whom he might have a future.

Fotir he might have expected, but why would the gleaner from the Revel have come?