What is "revellers"

Usage examples of "revellers".

A chosen number of the senators of the great city were to vindicate their daring by dying the revellers that they had lived.

Above, hanging low from the ceiling, burnt ten large lamps, corresponding to the number of guests assembled, as the only procurable representatives of the hundreds of revellers who had feasted at Vetranio's expense during the brilliant nights that were now passed for ever.

Drinking furiously to drown all recollection of the catastrophe they had just witnessed, three of the revellers had already suffered the worst consequences of an excess, which their weakened frames were ill-fitted to bear.

He stumbled past drunken guards, besotted revellers, too sunken in debauchery to grasp the significance of the strident tocsin of alarm.

He lurched through empty hallways, past the snoring revellers and the groping dancers, past the fumbling guards and the blindly rushing priests.

Neville considered that the jaded pixie still had plenty of life left in it, should The Swan's Yuletide revellers be persuaded to keep their malicious mitts off her.

Although no-one actually heard it, the signal echoed mystically about the saloon bar, halting the singers and drinkers and talkers and revellers in mid-swing and silencing them to a man.

Used to the excesses of nocturnal revellers, the citizens, with smiles and winks, gave way to his reeling steps.

Again, all was apparently solitary in the grove: afar off you heard faintly the voices of some noisy revellers or the music that played cheerily to the groups that then, as now in those climates, during the nights of summer, lingered in the streets, and enjoyed, in the fresh air and the liquid moonlight, a milder day.

His head was aching with the noise from the revellers and he merely sipped at the heavily-watered wine in the golden Persian goblet.

Few of the revellers, though, appeared to have noticed what was going on.

It was late and the city was quieting down, though this area was replete with revellers, as the plaza outside was frequented by the youth of this district.

A small party of revellers rounded the corner, obviously well on their way to total drunkenness and shouted greet­ings to Caleb and the boys.

At every table revellers waved, beckoned, slapped each other on the shoulders, argued, sprang about and shouted one another down.

He was smiling because everybody else was smiling, and because one discourteous gringo who refuses to smile amid a crowd of ridiculously beautiful Spanish-Indian mestizo revellers is an endangered species.