38 examples of revelers in sentences

In one great rush the horde of wild revelers crowded in with bared knives, and a snarling mass of dogs closed in behind them.

"You've been a bit down in the mouth to-night, Jack," I said presently, after we had been watching the cabs coming up, depositing the home-coming revelers from the Savoy or the Carlton.

Such sketches as that of the hardships which country folk suffer in winter, contrasted with the thoughtless gayety of city revelers, and inculcating the lesson of sympathy, are precisely in the vein that sentimentalism encouraged.

By a short cut through the streetswhere checkered sunshine, through the lattice roof, gave a muddy, subdued light as in a roiled aquariumthe revelers passed the inland wall.

Among all the revelers, one face alone showed melancholy.

From between Corinthian columns was a view of nearly all the temple precincts and of the lawns where revelers would presently forget restraint.

you moonshine revelers and shades of night

They joined with them a company of revelers as abandoned as themselves, and strove very hard to disguise and conceal their cares in their forced and unnatural gayety.

Among this band of careless, drunken revelers I sat vigilant, restless, and impatient; feigning to take a leading part in their dissolute hilarity, I was sober, collected, and alert to my very finger-tips.

what sorrow and consternation possessed him when he found he had taken the life of a quiet, unoffending person who happened to be standing by, attracted to the spot probably by the noise of the revelers.

They soon began their amusements, and in the midst of their mirth, Capt. Helm and party stealthily crept from their hiding place and surrounded the house; then bursting in suddenly upon the revelers, began to make arrests.

The night was quiet, except for the faint sound of distant music now and then, or the mellow laughter of some group of revelers.

These rough adventurers, fighters, revelers, passionate bachelors, stamped Tahiti with its first strong imprint of the white man's modes and vices, contending with the missionaries for supremacy of ideal.

The revelers all worn; the people ready to go home; the waiters impatient; the speech wholly extemporaneous.

The tents of the generals were crowned with myrtle, the beds were strewed with flowers, and tables every where were spread for feasts, with cups and bowls of wine all ready for the expected revelers.

" Robert was glad to have the sentinel's testimony, because in another moment the revelers were upon him, making sport of him for his false alarm, and asserting that not his eyes but the punch he had drunk had seen a French spy.

Bands of revelers accordingly jeered at them,they were still celebrating the festival, which, although they were at no time noted for temperate behavior, rendered them still more wanton,and finally a man planted himself in the road of Postumius and, with a forward inclination, threw him down and soiled his clothing.

6. ¶Meton, failing to persuade the Tarentini not to engage in hostilities with the Romans, retired unobserved from the assembly, put garlands on his head, and returned along with some fellow-revelers and a flute girl.

First, however, and as a means of helping her in her intended seclusion from the world, Mrs. Howard was to give the largest party of the seasona sort of carnival, from which the revelers were expected to retire the moment the silvery-voiced clock on her mantel struck the hour of twelve and ushered in the dawn of Lent.

Richard still intended to take the early train for St. Louis, and so he retired at last, but Ethelyn sat where she was until the carriages taking the revelers home had passed, and the lights were out in Mrs. Miller's windows, and the bell of St. John's had ushered in the second hour of the fast.

In half an hour the castle was in flames and the Wallachians, descending into the cellars, had knocked out the bottoms of the casks, and bathed in the sea of flowing wine and brandy, singing wild songs, while the fire burst from every window enveloping the blackened walls; after which the revelers departed, leaving their dead, and those who were too helplessly intoxicated to follow them.

Color, light, music, confetti, the dance, together combine to produce an intense and voluptuous intoxication which the revelers deepen with drink.

A dismayed little giggle went round the crowd of late tea revelers as we looked up the twenty-five feet of smooth wall topped by heavy battlements.

He went down to the booths in the town and joined the late revelers.

Who are the revelers?" Desmond made an inarticulate noise and sprang up, as if in answer to a call.

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