The whole scene, embraced from an altitude of fourteen hundred feet, is again before me, and I revel for a moment, whilst the illusion lasts, in the unspeakable emotion which was born of it.
An American farmer would laugh at the tiny stream scarcely more than a mile in length, but an artist would revel in its beauty.
Had I to toil hard and to live hard, seeing all the while some few privileged beings do nothing at all but revel in luxury, I should be a revolutionist too; only I should not know how to set the matter right.
The sentiment of the latter is expressed by the following verse:-- "What mean this revel and carouse?
They are without the remotest idea of sanitation for man or beast, and revel in dirt if you let them, poor things!
Men, that have vowed to renounce all worldly and carnal things flaunt like peacocks and revel like swine--my Lord Cardinal with his silver pillars foremost of them!
This was of course a relief, but Stephen could not help suspecting that he had been last night engaged in some revel about which he desired no inquiries.
Somehow, on Sunday night she had gathered that Ambrose had a store of such tales, and she dragged him off to the gallery, there to revel in them, while his brother remained with her father.
Hence I leave them to revel in their blasphemy, their lying and their calumny.
But these foes “revel in the most horrible crimes not merely against me, but even against God’s Word.
From every blush that kindles in thy cheeks, Ten thousand little loves and graces spring To revel in the roses.
Not even the horrors of an alarm practice can daunt her, though she may just have settled herself to revel for an hour in the pleasant byways of Professor Sidgwick's Ethics, when screams of "Fire!
At his age it were folly To revel with Philistine boys.
For one night, at least, the cramped and smothered fun and mischief of the younger generation were permitted to revel in the wild extravagance of a Roman saturnalia or the Christmas holidays of a slave plantation.
And when the light dance and the revel are done, She bears it away to her alcove alone, Where, fed by her hand from the cane that's most choice, In secret it gleans at the sound of her voice!
He seemed ashamed at appearing without his tabard, and looked anxiously around for his trumpet; but once launched upon the subject of his recollections, he appeared to revelwith eager delight in all the associations they called up.
The realms of boyish fancy are as wide as the great ocean; and we revel in them in all the plenitude of unrestricted power.
Englishmen, above all other men, revel in their privilege of being allowed to grumble and 'grouse' over the lives which the Fates have allotted to them.
Did they, in those days, cast aside their bark loin clothes, and revel once more in pristine nakedness, and in the green things of the forest, on all occasions of rejoicing?
He mentioned also the deference that he had paid to the Revel authorities.
I wanted Sir Hyde to let me at least go and cruise off Carlscrona, [where the Swedish fleet was,] to prevent the Revel ships getting in.
I make no scruple," he wrote to St. Vincent after he had procured the armistice, "in saying that I would have been at Revel fourteen days ago.
Revel Squadron of twelve or fourteen Sail of the Line are soon expected, as also five Sail of Swedes.
Shall the victor revel and triumph in her own loved France?
Their charity must have its proper stage, their sentiments the proper objects,--and their imaginations the undisturbed right to revel in the supposititious grievances of the far-off wretched and oppressed.
Amidst the revel thou wast gay, The blithest with the song!
Rather, a thousand times rather, would he beg his bread, and attain great things in Art, than riot and revel in good-fortune.
No prince could revel in the blissful consciousness of increasing power, more fully than he.
Three or four cold hard lines, thin and terse as the wire that conveyed them, are sworn enemies to all style, and especially to all the evasive cajoleries of those dissolving views of events diplomacy loves to revel in.
A rumour went abroad that Venus was coming to revel with Bacchus for the good of Asia.
Leaving Hammond to take the car home, Gramont headed for Canal Street to mingle with the carnival crowd and revel in his new-found sense of freedom.
That evening the Comus ball, the most exclusive revel of the most exclusive aristocracy of the southland, crowded the edifice in which it was held to capacity.
She was enjoying the scene and allowing her mind to revel in the future she had planned for herself.
She handed the basin of peas through the open window to Seraphina, and retired to her room, to study, to plan, and to revel in flights of epicurean fancy.
The ships intended to sail to the relief of Port Arthur were lying at this time some at Revel and others at Libau on the Baltic.
She appeared to go about unfettered, and to revel in the enjoyment of every luxury; but her time, her actions, and the vast wealth bequeathed to her by her husband, were all at the disposal of her tyrant.
It is very pretty here, and I wish all invalids could revel in the sweet changeless air.
As I write now I hear the moaning rustle of the wind through their plume-like tops, and their long slender stems, and crisp crown of leaves above the trees with shining leafage which revel in damp, have a suggestion of Orientalism about them.
Animals, including dogs and cats, revel in the meat, and in the scarcity of good water the milk is a useful substitute.
So six irreproachable young women, the pride of careful mothers, were billeted on Miss Wendover, while the more Bohemian damsels were to revel in the improvised accommodation of The Knoll.
She would revel in the advantages of her position as Mrs. Wendover of the Abbey,' asserted Miss Rylance.
Business is over, and they can revel thoroughly while they are about it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "revel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
