His convivial and belligerent characteristics led him into all sorts of scrapes.
If Sakia means a convivial feast in Persian, it fits very well the Persian Sacaea, which were a time of jollity.
Both had been irregular at college, Goldsmith, as we have shown, from the levity of his nature and his social and convivial habits; Johnson, from his acerbity and gloom.
Convivial meetings were all the vogue, and the tavern was the universal rallying-place of good-fellowship.
A truer cause of this distaste for the severer studies may probably be found in his natural indolence and his love of convivial pleasures.
At a convivial meeting with a number of his fellow-students, he suddenly proposed to draw lots with any one present which of the two should treat the whole party to the play.
During his residence in Scotland his convivial talents gained him at one time attentions in a high quarter, which, however, he had the good sense to appreciate correctly.
Amid this convivial animated bustle among his guests, our host sat perfectly composed; always attentive to what was said, never minding what was ate or drank, but left every one at perfect liberty to scramble for himself.
In the army he was in a convivial crowd, and they had hard marching and poor rations, often none.
He said his father was a gentleman of convivial habits (I have heard that he was very dissipated, though not openly so, and "No.
We do the same,' said Aristoxenus in his Convivial Miscellanies, 'as the men of Poseidonia, who dwell on the Tyrrhenian Gulf.
So there followed bowls of punch in one friend's room, where English, French, and Germans blent together in convivial Babel; and flasks of old Montagner in another.
Nay, his convivial Mecaenases themselves were not the last to do it.
He drinks spirits in public, and, after a dram or two, his convivial nature requires that every stranger in the room shall seal friendship in a glass with him.
Aside from petty thieving--noted in some cases--the complaints of people near a Slav settlement center upon the affrays that follow in the wake of convivial drinking.
Leaving Rhyolite, Shorty had induced Judge Decker, a convivial resident of Ballarat to furnish a grubstake to look over Black Mountain.
The number of members of this convivial community cannot have been considerable.
The Colonel was the soul of our entertainment: amongst his other virtues, he has the companionable and convivial ones to an immense degree, which I never had an opportunity of discovering so clearly before.
Convivial in his habits, sprightly and genial in conversation, John Wilkes Booth made many friends among the young men of his own age, and he was a favorite among the ladies at the National Hotel, where he boarded.
This time, moreover, was the period of a curious literary trick, the resuscitation or forging of the convivial poems of Oliver Basselin by a Norman lawyer of the name of Jean le Houx.
As every great household had at that time its jester, so every convivial circle had its clown or buffoon.
These convivial men have fought against the hated Spaniards, and are ready to trail a pike at any moment.
They say it is in the interests of temperance, but it's really to compel their convivial friends to visit themselves.
I'm not bragging; I might have been more convivial if it didn't so easily give me a sore head.
There are convivial old gentlemen on the other side of the street who have got up a petition to the magistrates to shut up the inn and the public-house in the afternoon.
Again her voice was the voice of Wully Oliver; the sentiment, as the Dyces knew, was the slogan of his convivial hospitality.
We have spoken of the difference between transient, convivial sympathy, and that higher species of sympathy which, connected with esteem, constitutes friendship.
Long Acre was the scene of many convivial gatherings in the Hanoverian times.
St. James's Street has been noted from the very beginning for its clubs, gaming-houses, and convivial gatherings.
Our prop and stay from a convivial point of view was Jarman.
My persevering efforts of the last few months towards the acquisition of convivial habits appeared this evening to be receiving their reward.
At this date there prevailed in Casterbridge a convivial custom--scarcely recognized as such, yet none the less established.
Ascott, the theaters, Vauxhall, and the convivial taverns in the joyous neighborhood of Covent Garden, were visited by the vivacious squire, in company with his learned brother.
These papers were full of a profuse, headlong eloquence, of humor, literary criticism, and personalities interspersed with songs expressive of a roystering and convivial Toryism and an uproarious contempt for Whigs and cockneys.
English letters and the center of convivial wit combats at the Mermaid, the Devil, and other famous London taverns.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "convivial" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
