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Example sentences for "revelry"

Lexicographically close words:
revelled; reveller; revellers; revelling; revelries; revels; revenant; revenge; revenged; revengeful
  1. There was not a light in any of the houses on either side; and not a sound of revelry or sorrow escaped from the ill-closed casements.

  2. From the neighbouring houses the sounds of boisterous revelry fell upon her ears.

  3. His training was in the court and the camp, and he seemed equally at home and in his element, amid the refined gaieties of the palace, the grave deliberations of the royal council, and the mad revelry of the battle-field.

  4. The sudden extinguishment of these pantomimic stars, revealed to the surprised revellers the presence of the dawn, before whose coming the stars of every sphere go out, and revelry gives place to the sober realities of life.

  5. A royal banquet was prepared, and the palace resounded with joyous revelry and music.

  6. As the stricken father retired to bed, the sound of revelry fell heavily upon an almost bursting heart.

  7. A traveller passing by that morn, Marvell'd that all so long Should linger in that festive hall With revelry and song.

  8. It seems to have been a season of rustic revelry and feasting, and of license for slaves, like the Saturnalia.

  9. The Palais resounded with revelry until the morning sun looked into the great window, blushing red at the scene of drunken riot that had become habitual in the Palace of the Intendant.

  10. I started by the chapel door, But something urged me in, And told me not to spend God's day In revelry and sin.

  11. That they frequent scenes of revelry Where death is bought and sold, Where at least they get a welcome Though it's prompted by their gold?

  12. In the midst of the revelry he gave thought to Eric Leverage and chuckled.

  13. Then, with his cigar glowing and great clouds of rich smoke filling the air--he sank into a revelry of thinking.

  14. Enough you have of jester, player, priest: I as the skeleton attend your feast, In the mad revelry to make a lull With shaken finger and with bobbing skull.

  15. Stores had risen, there were hotels and lodging- houses, busy restaurants and busier saloons whence came the sounds of revelry by night and by day.

  16. She had made herself a Lady Godiva; by this night of conspicuous revelry she had undone everything.

  17. The song was still sounding in Rouletta's heart when she sat down at the faro-table, and all through the evening it seemed to her that the revelry round about was but an echo of her gladness.

  18. Presently the city marshal sauntered out, leaving his comrades of the long trail to carry on their revelry alone.

  19. The wolf-howling of its revelry was stilled, the clamor of its obscene diversions was hushed.

  20. They had taken him away from the main part of town, as he was aware by the sound of its revelry in the near distance.

  21. He went on to meet them, his dream before him, the wild sound of Ascalon's obscene revelry in his ears.

  22. His life was one of revelry and fighting and display.

  23. The rumblings of the Revolution could be heard by almost every ear; and yet society and the court, refusing to listen, plunged into the wildest revelry under the leadership of the giddy Marie Antoinette.

  24. He was naturally a pleasure-loving man of the world, who may very possibly have relieved his severer studies by occasional revelry and light love.

  25. Standing before Peter, his voice rang out with the tone of a battle trumpet, so that the sounds of revelry were hushed.

  26. She was shivering, and sick with terror at this unseemly midnight revelry of her grandfather's old mill.

  27. As he came near he heard sounds of revelry issuing from the open door and he smiled coldly.

  28. By the time the kerosene lamps were lighted in the saloons revelry reigned.

  29. As the revelry in the saloons increased the printer glanced furtively at his chief.

  30. When the revelry of his companions had mounted to its height, this man slipped away unobserved, and I saw no more of him till he became my comrade on the sea.

  31. So still and subdued and yet somehow preluding was all the scene, and such an incantation of revelry lurked in the air, that each silent sailor seemed resolved into his own invisible self.

  32. There was a sound of revelry by night in Mrs. Wallace's villa at Richmond, and fair women and brave men mustered there strong.

  33. I could never discover which, and used to lie staring into the darkness listening to the "sounds of revelry by night," not to mention the choicest flow of language floating up into the air.

  34. Sunday night was a gala performance and I was often asked to a "scrambled-egg" supper during which, with forks suspended in mid air, we listened breathlessly to the sounds of revelry beneath.

  35. Sometimes there floated in upon us the hum of revelry from the great drawing-room where Madame had her company.

  36. Sounds of mad revelry came down from the floor above.

  37. Let it not be thought by any chance that Coniston was given over to revelry and late hours, even on the Fourth of July.

  38. Its opportunities for disgraceful revelry and immorality were unrivalled anywhere.

  39. He had been to school in the streets, in dark places of revelry and crime, and in the very house of light!

  40. Who knows what revelry in Mars May rhyme with rouse akin?

  41. Bob Ridley's house was the scene of rude and reckless revelry that night.

  42. I stated that there was revelry on board the brig that night.

  43. It was useless to wait longer, for they knew that many of the Danes would, according to their custom, keep up their revelry all night.

  44. The wealthy citizens vied with each other in bestowing costly presents upon them, bonfires were lighted in the streets, and till morning the town gave itself up to revelry and rejoicing.

  45. She had me carried on a litter here to be away from the noise and revelry of the camp.

  46. Having little else to do, he was prompted by curiosity to approach the building, from whence the loud din of mirth and revelry grated harshly on his ears.

  47. Bursts of hilarity broke from the interior; the voice of revelry and mirth came upon my ear, as though I was just awakening from a dream.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "revelry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.