Satyrs are the attendant daemons who form the Kômos, or revel rout, of Dionysus.

An end shall be of revel, and an end Of crowns and song and mirth of friend with friend, Wherewith my house was glad.

"Pleasure!" "Aren't you looking forward to this rout or revel?" "Oh, I suppose it'll be all right," he said, in a toneless voice.

Pure, innocent, noble-hearted girl! whom, from earliest youth, ever I believed in as full of truth and self-sacrifice, this was amongst the strongest pledges for thy side, that never onceno, not for a moment of weaknessdidst thou revel in the vision of coronets and honor from man.

Here it is always cool and pleasant in the hottest weather, and from the broad shadows cast by the precipices above one can revel in the sunny land and sea-scapes without that fishy odour so unavoidable in the villages.

Let us not dwell on her name, but recall, with somewhat of pride, that the names of that knot of accomplished, intellectual women, who composed the neighbourhood of Strawberry, were all English; those who loved to revel in all its charms of society and intellect were our justly-prized countrywomen.

It was about eighteen years after the death of Maria, and what is called an annual Revel was held at Ashburton.

"Shortly after I had joined my regiment," continued Charles, "I was present in Devonshire, at what is called a revel.

Finally, to abolish slavery is to proclaim and enact that innocence and helplessnessnow free plunderare entitled to legal protection; and that power, avarice, and lust, shall no longer revel upon their spoils under the license, and by the ministration of law!

I never imagined, that he who, in the mirth of a nocturnal revel, concurred in ridiculing his friend, would consider, in a cooler hour, that the same trick might be played against himself; or that even where there is no sense of danger, the natural pride of human nature rises against him, who, by general censures, lays claim to general superiority.

Chapter IX The Arearea in the pavilionRaw fish and baked feisLlewellyn, the Master of the Revel; Kelly, the I.V.W., and His HimeneThe UpaupahuraLanders and Mamoe prove expertsThe return to Papeete.

Nature was in vast luxuriance, in a revel of aloofness from human beings, casting its wealth of blazing colors and surprising shapes upon every side.

Some few by a reverse reading give a different sense as leper, revel, etc. W.F. * *

From midday until the April sun dipped below the sharp skyline of the Omaha hills, the modest revel endured.

that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!"Shakspeare.

So fade the fair, When fevers revel through their azure veins.

It was a scene of Babylonian profligacyeven the late owner of Frank joined in the revel full-spiritedly, and it endured to a certain moment of icy realization, suffered by the host.

What can it betoken? GENIUS Ah, but yonder see I mortals, Come to revel with delight.

EDWARDS, REVEL F., joint author.

It is true, the reign of Robespierre and his sanguinary tribunal are execrated in studied phrases; yet is it enough to adopt humanity as a mode, to sing the Revel du Peuple in preference to the Marseillois, or to go to a theatre with a well-powdered head, instead of cropped locks a la Jacobin?

From the point of yonder rolling cloud, I plunge into my past being, and revel there, as the sunburnt Indian plunges headlong into the wave that wafts him to his native shore.

Peter's soldiers, now that victory was assured, were holding high revel of feasting and song and dancing.

And so her reverie takes prophetic cheer In spirit she sees the stir Far down the depth of thousand years, And marks the revel shine; Her dusky face is lit with sober light, Sibylline, yet benign.

Like the Spanish writers, the Italians love to revel in magic, as is best seen in the greatest gems of that age, the poems of "Orlando Innamorato" and "Orlando Furioso," by Boiardo and Ariosto.

The heroes are now exposed to hairbreadth escapes; wonderful adventures succeed one another without any pause; and there is a constant series of enchantments, such as the Italian poets loved to revel in, as is shown in the works by Boiardo and Ariosto already mentioned.