There was no strong drink to be had at Millville, so the workmen brought their bottles to town, carousing on the way, and thought it amusing to frighten the simple inhabitants of the village by their rude shouts and ribald songs.

If at times Omar does preach carpe diem, if he paint in his exuberant fancy the delights of carousing, Fitzgerald is righthe bragged more than he drank.

Having never been before in a place so wild and unfrequented I was glad of their arrival, because I knew that we had made them friends; and to gain still more of their goodwill we went to them, where they were carousing in the barn, and added something to our former gift.'

Let's in, and handsel our new mansion-house With a carousing round of Spanish wine.

After new year's day, drinking and carousing, visiting and feasting, idleness and dissipation, continue for weeks.

Marry, Master Churms has something a better pair of legs indeed, but for a sweet face, a fine beard, comely corpse, and a carousing codpiece.

In the midst of their carousing, some of the members remarked that when the stadtholderess received the written petition, Count Berlaimont observed to her that "she had nothing to fear from such a band of beggars" (tasdeGUEUX).

When these are to happen, all the people prepare their food, that they may not be under the necessity of going out of doors, and during the eclipse they play on various instruments of music, and set up loud shouts: when it is over, they indulge in feasting and carousing, to express their joy.

Every one is anxious to attend the fair, which is an occasion for seeing one's friends, an opportunity for jollification, carousing, and general enjoymentlike a large county fair at home.

In the teepee the farthest from us, right on the edge of the shore, there are three young men carousing.

Their time was passed in feasting and carousing; their canoes together flew over the waters of the Mississippi.

I went accordingly with the sergeant to this house, There I found the officer commanding the piquet and several others sitting at table, carousing with beer and tobacco and nearly invisible from the clouds of smoke which pervaded the room.

He did not, however, give in, but continued carousing until an hour before his death.

As the evening approaches, day after day they seek out some convenient landing place, and, pitching the wigwams on the beach, spend a goodly portion of the night carousing and telling stories around their camp fires, resuming their voyage after a morning sleep, long alter the sun has risen above the blue waters of the east.

The reader will see that we had cause to be grateful, when he takes into consideration that drinking and fighting was the order of the day, and drunkenness and carousing the order of the night.

Fliolmus, king of the Gothes, was so addicted to drinking, that hee would sit a great part of the night quaffing and carousing with his servants.

Fires were kindled here and there, and drinking, carousing and horse-racing were flourishing in full vigor.

I have been laughing, I have been carousing, Drinking late, sitting late, with my bosom cronies, All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

And entertain'd ye in a worthy service, Where your best wages was the world's repute, That thus ye seek his life, by whom ye live? Have you forgot too, How often in old times Your drunken mirths have stunn'd day's sober ears, Carousing full cups to Sir Walter's health?

But Fergus made merry, rejoicing at the reconciling; bidden to a treacherous banquet by the partisans of Concobar, his heart never misgave him, but giving the charge of Deirdré and the sons of Usnac to his sons, he went to the banquet, delaying long in carousing and singing, while Deirdré and the three brothers were carried southwards to Emain.

865 The unheeding Ass moves slowly on, And now is passing by an inn Brim-full of a carousing crew, That make, with curses not a few, An uproar and a drunken din. 870 I cannot well express the thoughts Which Peter in those noises found; A stifling power compressed his frame, While-as a swimming darkness came Over that dull and dreary sound.

[Illustration: Captain Roberts' Crew carousing at Old Calabar River.]

[Illustration: The crews of Black Beard's and Vane's vessels carousing on the coast of Carolina.]

"Sure, we can eat supper tonight in an oasis, if we're so mindedwith Ouled Naïls and houris to hand round the palm-wine and" "You forget, my dear fellow," the Master interrupted, "that the first man who goes carousing with wine or women, dies before a firing-squad.

Lazarus is described as represented in the sixteenth century before a hôtel, before which sat the rich man carousing, while Abraham, in a parson's coat, looked out of an upper window.