He still wrote occasional poems, and was the soul of all conviviality in the town.
At their banquets and scenes of conviviality and amusement, he was scarcely ever to be found, preferring rather his domestic hearth and the society of his daughter.
Apparently they succumb to conviviality when it is presented to them in the guise of a business duty.
But they invariably leave behind them capable widows, women who do not recogniseconviviality as a business obligation.
His shrinking abhorrence from the scholastic life of Edinburgh flung him with all the greater abandon into the conviviality he had learned to know at home.
As soon as he is conducted to this hall the banquet which has been prepared for the guests commences, and after a few hours of conviviality each returns to his home.
The caches were again opened, supplies of various kinds taken out, and a liberal allowance of aqua vitae distributed throughout the camp, to celebrate with proper conviviality this merry meeting.
In doing so the discoloration of his face was very apparent; and the guests, who had now arrived at that stage of conviviality where candour takes the place of politeness, proceeded to make their remarks without reserve.
The cups were still quickly filled and emptied, but more in compliance with the customs of convivialitythan the demands of thirst.
Not to be supposed is it that Ramsay had lived six-and-twenty years of his life without having practised, and we have no doubt enjoyed, the widespread conviviality of the period.
The conviviality was maintained until half-past ten, when Captain O’Blunderbuss and Frank Curtis rose to take their leave of Mr. Scales and the colonel.
In the midst of the conviviality a knock at the door was heard; and on Mr. Scales exclaiming “Come in,” the invitation was obeyed by a gentleman who was immediately introduced to the captain and Frank Curtis as Colonel Tickner.
But conviviality was the order of the evening, and the punchers grouped together and told and listened to jokes, old and new, talked sagebrush politics, and threw dice for the privilege of paying rather than winning.
The effects of his conviviality at the Blue had worn off, leaving him in an ugly mood.
Wo to the wight who sate down for an afternoon's conviviality with Toddy Tam!
He now began to cultivate conviviality for its own especial sake.
The dining-room was the scene of much of that emphatic hospitality which it pleased the novelist to dispense, his exuberant spirits making him the leader in all the jollity and conviviality of the board.
His wit and conviviality were usually the life of the circle, but at times he was mute and abstracted and for hours together "would just sit and sit in his corner there.
Another knock on the table produces a momentary silence, and a little man starts off with an extempore song, where the conviviality of the landlord, and the goodness of his suppers, are duly chronicled.
We pour out wine to those about us, wishing the same fellowship and conviviality to others: but to enlarge the circle would disturb and deaden its harmony.
That was sufficient to dedicate the inn to conviviality for ever.
About this time," Gifford wrote, "Jonson probably began to acquire that turn for conviviality for which he was afterwards noted.
This slur upon the gaiety and conviviality of Mr. Williams's table must be as groundless as is an assertion which he also hazards, that there was nothing for dinner but fish--and that after dinner oysters formed the dessert.
I was destined to follow in his wake and succeed to the business; however, I cut the treacle tubs at an early age--I saw no fun in firkins, and could not manage conviviality in canvas sleeves.
He had undergone the ordinary transitions from the height of conviviality to the depth of misery, and from the depth of misery to the height of conviviality.
With this exception, their good-humour was completely restored; and the evening concluded with the conviviality with which it had begun.
The streets present a lively and animated appearance, occasioned chiefly by the conviviality of the military.
He had been ill of a fever, from which he was slowly recovering, and his end is said to have been the result of an over-conviviality in entertaining Drayton and Ben Jonson, who had paid him a visit at Stratford.
The lady was cold and exacting; and, it must be confessed, the poet loved a bottle at the club-room or tavern better than the luxuries of Holland House; and not infrequently this convivialityled him to excess.
Eighteen years of peace had made France rich, and a spirit of conviviality was diffused amongst all classes.
Conviviality concerns everything, hence it produces fruits of all flavours.
Conviviality with them is not the happy abandonment to good fellowship and enjoyment, but the season of cold and studied calculation--the hour when, unexcited themselves, they trade upon the unguarded and unwary feelings of others.
I verily believe the French are more frightened by our conviviality than ever they were by the bayonets of the Allies.
Though he frequently stopped to listen, he never could catch the sounds of a conviviality that he well knew was little measured, and hence he opined that he must have wandered far away from the right track.
The meal was an excellent one, and passed off with all that easy conviviality that every class of Frenchmen know how to display.
Scarcely so dangerous an error as to carry conviviality into business," said Lord Castlereagh, slyly.
