We women revelled in the idea of the rich silks she would probably throw upon the beach, and the men thought a good job would be made by steamboat companies and wreck agents.

"I'm getting weaker every minute, and everything is goin' from meand now its gettin' darkcan't some of yez light a lamp?" Danny had heard his mother tell so many times the story of his grandfather's last momentsit came easily to him now, and he revelled in the sensation he was making.

At last, however, we climbed to this lofty eminence and revelled as well as we could amongst the musty old books, which themselves revelled in the dust of ages.

In those dreadful times there were more men who felt the need of divine grace than there were philosophers who revelled in the speculations of the Greeks.

Says Henry T. Finck, an able American music critic: "When I had revelled in the music of Chopin and Wagner, Liszt and Franz, to the point of intoxication, I fancied that the last word had been said in harmony and melody;

They ascended a branch coming from the north-east, and for a time revelled in the spectacle of well-grassed and promising valleys; but they soon again came amongst the scrub and sand plains of the inland desert.

His seat was firm, his aim was good, and he revelled in the chase.

The scanty description of Captains Irby and Mangles, the only one I had read, gave me no distinct idea of its position or appearance; and when, the other day, I first saw it looming grand and gray among the gray hills, more like a vast natural crystallization than the product of human art, I revelled in the novelty of that startling first impression.

Shady forest trees and shrubs surrounded us on every side, a clear stream of running water fringed with ferns and wild flowers rippled through our camp, while the poor half-starved horses of the escort revelled in the long, rich grass.

The very audacity of the scheme, however, seemed to afford its best chance of success, and when that success should have been attained, Tom's fancy, overleaping all intermediate difficulties, revelled in the wild possibilities of the future.

An earthquake heaved beneath their feet, Pale meteors revelled in the sky, The clouds sailed by like a routed fleet, The night-winds shrieked as they passed by, The dark-red moon was eclipsed on high.

Here they conveyed their prey, whether stolen or purchased; here they held their midnight orgies, and revelled in the midst of misery.

His headquarters were established at Caracas, and there, as well as elsewhere, his troops revelled in the perfidious torture and execution of their capitulated foes.

As for Anna, she had revelled in the exuberance of her freedom from a disagreeable past, the events of which seemed like some frightful nightmare.

As before they revelled in the abundance of the game.

In his delightful memoirs Babar describes how, with boyish glee, he paced the ramparts himself, wandered from palace to palace, and revelled in the fruit-gardens of what was then one of the finest cities of Asia.

Truly, I had a right to say: "With a great price obtained I this freedom," and having paid the price, I revelled in the liberty I had bought.

It was the Bratwurst-Glockleinsuch a restaurant as Doctor Johnson would have deserted the Cheshire Cheese for, and revelled in the change.

Another would have turned his face to the wall in my state of health, and have allowed two dirty Jews such as Tyrrwhit and Samuel Hart to have revelled in the wealth of Tretton.

And so, in order to keep the balance, he revelled in the imaginary or real deeds of men whose very life-breath was danger.

Keith revelled in the free use of it, and his mother talked seriously of not renting it again, but the father insisted that they could not afford to keep it for themselves.

What artist but Giorgione would have so revelled in the glories of the evening sunset, the orange horizon, the distant blue hills?

They revelled in the pictured visions of the circus, but were sceptical about the literal fulfilment of some of the promises made on the bills.

At any other time how I would have revelled in the idea of his two theatres, his schools, his libraries, his statues pillaged from my beautiful Greece, his philosopher's walla huge wall built only for shade, so that his friends who came to discourse philosophy with him could walk in its west shadow mornings, and in its east shadow afternoons; all these things would have driven me wild with enthusiasm.

Now all was bright and no thought of danger entered our minds as we revelled in the pleasures of such an excursion.