With these crumbs, or as one may say, with these whole loaves of comfort to regale upon, Mr Dennis took his place among the escort that awaited him, and repaired to jail with a manly indifference.
Amgiad was forced to comply: they both sat down, and began to regale themselves.
With such extraordinary exhibitions of blatant ignorance can a worthy clerk regale himself, but they must be very trying at times.
Captain Bonneville, who was delighted with the game look of these cavaliers of the mountains, welcomed them heartily to his camp, and ordered a free allowance of grog to regale them, which soon put them in the most braggart spirits.
The incessant smoking of pipes incident to the long talks of this excellent, but somewhat garrulous old chief, at length exhausted all his stock of tobacco, so that he had no longer a whiff with which to regale his white companions.
When they have been fortunate enough to kill one, they divide it amongst them amicably, andregale themselves upon it until only the bones remain, after which they endure a new period of privation.
Camilla reluctantly loitered, but without stopping or turning to meet them, that she might still regale herself with the perfume of the geranium presented her by Edgar.
He gave me of mutton nearest the bone, which, they say, is sweetest; and on sweet things you should not regale in excess.
To regale them when they returned, Mrs. Mel, whose mind was not intent on greatness, was occupied in spreading meat and wine.
Another anecdote relating to Continental Royalties of that day did John Stanhope send to regale his family.
No point in the Park had been anticipated more than the camp at the Cañon where Mr. Hicks averred that the bears came in swarms to regalethemselves upon the hotel garbage.
Their idols are often carried in procession on horseback, attended by bands of music; and many feasts and sacrifices are made in their honour, the idols being fed on the smoke and flavour, while the votaries regale on the substantial meats.
I soon found a way to regale them, by setting before them abundance of our choicest Peruvian conserves, with which they seemed much gratified.
It was not the horses, however, but human flesh on which this brute made up his mind to regale himself.
But it was easily explained: a dead bullock lay in a bit of bush only a stone's throw up the stream, and on this the beast had doubtless come to regale himself.
We are inclined to give the palm of priority to the venerable red-capped mother at Holloway, who must have been moderately notorious in the time of Drunken Barnaby, when he halted to regale himself at her portal.
This day, having paid our taxes of yesterday, we were permitted to regale ourselves with more venison.
Many battles were fought by the maternal hens in defence of their progeny; in which Bobby always got the best of it, going off triumphantly with his prize, to regale in safety on the roof, or at the top of the windmill.
Happy the man that has each fortune tried, To whom she much has giv’n, and much denied; With abstinence all delicates he sees, And can regale himself on toast and cheese.
To satisfy the fellow, I told him I was going to meet some friends who were to regale me at noon, and make merry with me upon the recovery of my health.
Her polished manner and ease in company do not suffer one to suspect ever so remotely that she at any time plied the reaping-hook, and came out of a stubblefield to regale a weary wanderer with brown bread and bonnyclabber.
The rude and vulgar applaud its witticisms, the low and infamous regale themselves with its pictures, and its demoralizing influence is infecting the land.
The fat man hates trouble, smothers his own, and you only make him ill at ease when you regale him with yours.
That salesmen are popularly supposed to regale each customer with yarns till he gasps for breath and to get his signature on the dotted line while he is in that weakened condition, is more or less of a myth.
Describes His Food ¶ The fat person likes to regale you with alluring descriptions of what he had for breakfast, what he has ordered for lunch and what he is planning for dinner--and the rarebit he has on the program for after the theater.
Rich odours shall regale your smell, On choicest sweets your palate dwell, Your feelings thrill with ecstasy.
He came to his mother-in-law and made his new servant regale the old woman and her daughters right royally.
Then Ivan the Tsarevich spread out his little bread-and-salt table-cloth, the twelve youths and the twelve damsels appeared, and began to regale the Forest Monster with as much as ever he could eat.
Rather let me regale you with a breakfast such as you have never eaten since the day of your birth, only take care that you don't swallow your tongue and all!
He gave his voevods [20] three hundred and three buckets of mead to toast him in, and bade them regale his whole realm with beer for three days.
