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Example sentences for "revelled"

Lexicographically close words:
revelations; revelatory; reveled; revelers; reveling; reveller; revellers; revelling; revelries; revelry
  1. Animation marked all his ways, and at times he revelled in the wildest spirits.

  2. The little world of the theatre in which we have revelled is still open to us, and it is always pleasant to turn over the brightest pages of its history.

  3. We were bound to win and we revelled in the hardships of the way.

  4. It seemed to us, as we gazed aloft with an everlasting stare, The sky was a pit of bale and dread, and a monster revelled there.

  5. Mahomet's record shows that he would have sanctioned this if he had thought it for the interest of the State, and he would probably have revelled in it.

  6. He revelled in the dying agonies of the prisoners and other victims whom he subjected to this cruel death.

  7. He caused the Greek nobles to be bound, two and three together, and thrown into the Maritza, while he stood on the bank and revelled in the sight of their drowning struggles.

  8. She told me she fairly revelled in stories of high life and detective stories.

  9. Miss Hopkins capitulated at once, and sat down to order her costume, while Sibyl, the niece, revelled silently in visions of a new bicycle which should presently revert to her.

  10. A constant round of gaiety such as the older woman revelled in was quite unsatisfying to her daughter.

  11. Every one revelled in her beauty, even I who watched my ropes melt away into nothingness as the dew of the morning before the sun's rays.

  12. This final stoppage was beneath a clump of fairly grown trees whose boughs formed a goodly shade from the westering sun, and all revelled in the beauty of the view forward as they partook of their scanty meal.

  13. A Gerôme or Vereschágin would have revelled in the sight.

  14. Shady forest trees and shrubs surrounded us on every side, a clear stream of running water fringed with ferns and wild flowers rippled through our camp, while the poor half-starved horses of the escort revelled in the long, rich grass.

  15. She cried a good deal in these days, declared that her life had been a failure, and revelled in old memories, which, whether painful or sweet, filled her soul with bitterness.

  16. He languished at her feet, despairing, full of worship and a desire to die for her; as the pages of olden times had loved their queens, so he revelled in this hopeless passion.

  17. The pastor kindled the excellent weed forthwith, and revelled in the fragrant clouds.

  18. The dazzling tones in which the Impressionists revelled were replaced by those which were dim and soft, energy and force by subdued and tender treatment, largeness of size by a scale which was small and intimate.

  19. And he who afterwards revelled in the clearest plein-air painting here celebrates the secret wonders of the night, though the influences of Impressionism are here already visible.

  20. These men at first revelled in beef and mutton, as the savage invaders, who of old poured down from the forests of the north on Italy, revelled in Massic and Falernian wines.

  21. But at home all remained the same, only that by the help of Hannibal our garden increased in beauty and productiveness to a wonderful extent, and Pomp and I revelled in the abundance of the fruit.

  22. Lying in my small bed, I revelled in delectable imaginings.

  23. Crawling, sore and sullen, from the clutch of toil, I revelled in a lotus life of ease and idleness.

  24. They foregathered in the streets and revelled to their hearts' content.

  25. Experience had taught them that the roseate view of things was the least likely to be sound, and they now revelled in predictions of an otto--not of roses.

  26. Even the ladies, regardless of blisters and the snowy whiteness of their hands, revelled in the role of navvy.

  27. The brutes--not knowing the difference--revelled in horseflesh.

  28. For a while Cecilia revelled in the thought that she could love in this most saint-like manner.

  29. His fine wit revelled in bestowing titles that were at once batteries directed upon persons he hated, and entrenchments for himself.

  30. He enjoyed the slumbrous peace, and revelled in the noonday heat that shimmered above the array of barley ears and veiled with a pearly haze valley and hills and all the land between.

  31. But though he revelled in the exercise of his unencumbered limbs, he had a keen eye to his safety: the most wily of hunted creatures could not have been more alert and vigilant than he.

  32. The principal scenes in the novel proved most attractive to him, and he fairly revelled in delineating the tragic episodes associated with the career of Fagin and Sikes.

  33. How could a man who revelled in vast schemes, whose mind preyed on itself if there were no facts and figures to grind, or difficulties to overcome, ever sink to the level of a Justice Shallow?

  34. Her vivacious manners bespoke a warm impulsive nature, that had revelled in the splendour of her high ceremonial station and now seemed strained beyond endurance by the trials threatening her and her three children.

  35. He revelled in a hard-fought match and seemed impervious to knocks and bruises.

  36. At his favourite tarn, he revelled in the vast stillness with the greater awe for having heard the hum of men, and his minstrel dreams had derived fresh vigour from contact with the active world.

  37. Those below revelled without interval, except for sleep; and they took their sleep just where they happened to sink down, then returned again to the liquor.

  38. Sweet old Grandma Sheldon, who would not have harmed a fly and hated to see even a mousetrap set, simply revelled in the newspaper accounts of murders.

  39. My cousin Kate and I had always corresponded since they had "gone west" ten years before; and Kate, who revelled in the western life, had sung the praises of her adopted land rapturously and constantly.

  40. He revelled in it and, to match his exhilarated mood, he touched the pony with his whip and went clinking and glittering down the hill under the poplars at a dashing rate.

  41. Tamzine revelled in it, but Abel liked more subtly-tinted flowers.

  42. Meanwhile he revelled in his torment and his happiness--so madly commingled that he never knew whether he was in heaven or hell.

  43. The greatest religious poet of all times after St. Bernard was Jacopone da Todi, who also, though rarely, revelled in fervid utterances.

  44. In his old age he revelled in the after-taste and settled down to write his memoirs.


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