But at the height a redoubled pace turns the mood back to revelling mirth with broken bits of the horn tune.
Instead of rolling, revelling melody there is stern proclamation, as of oracle, in the solemn pauses.
He shows greatest sympathy, freedom and delight in revelling among the simple tones and rhythms of popular utterance, rearing on them, all in poetic spontaneity, a structure of high art.
From the final revelling tempest comes a sudden awakening.
Like a flock of huge birds the revelling whirlwind darted revelling away.
And thus he goes maundering on with dull vivacity about how he played Sir Dagonet in Arthur's Show at Mile End, and once remained all night revelling in a windmill in St. George's Fields.
He saw his country revelling again in her old splendour, stretching out her limbs and taking once more the foremost place among her sister nations.
For the first time in his life he found the mere memory of a woman thrilling; his whole nature vibrated in response to the appeal she made to him, and he walked along buoyantly under the stars, revelling in the delight of being alive.
Unworthy is it of you, who are revelling in the amplitude of means and power, to deride the unfortunate.
Heaven knows I have little heart for revelling just now, but something we must invent to detain Essex at Kenilworth till the danger blows over.
There was revelling and roystering, as usual, with "high life below-stairs.
During the daytime all were either actively engaged in thieving, or were revelling in low amusements.
I have myself seen in moonlight, animals of various and conflicting natures revelling in the rest of nature's armistice, drinking in crowds at the solitary pool; the only source of water in the desert.
He was sufficiently blessed in the good fortune of his daughter, as his step-son Bouverot was by her nearness, and this pair of knaves lay deeply buried and revelling in nothing but flowers.
Here is Linda's letter:-- "We have both been living very quietly since our agreeable runaway has been revelling about on mountains and in palaces.
A comfortable low came at intervals from the cattle, revelling in the abundant herbage.
Would the Sultan be even now basking in beauty and revelling in champagne amongst the enervating delights of the Seraglio gardens?
The unfolding leaves of the shrubs are bathed in it and the tender firstlings of the flowers are revelling in it.
Scores of wasps, bees and flies of all sizes and colors are revelling in the sweetness.
Men who had been revelling in the plenty of two captured cities, could not return without impatience to the restraints of a time of scarcity.
Piccinni was rocking the cradle of his youngest child, born that same year; another of his children tugged at his coat to make him tip over the cradle; the mother revelling in the spectacle.
In 1813 he wrote in his diary: "What a fearful state to be in, not to be able to trample down all my longings for the joys of a home, to be always revelling in these longings.
When he was in London revelling in his triumph, she sent him a letter in which she asked him for money enough to buy a certain little house she had set her heart on, naïvely adding that it was just a cosy size for a widow.
Then he came to an open place where trees had been felled; the stumps and chips dotted the ground, and bluebells had sprung up abundantly, along with patches of briar and heath revelling in the sunshine.
It was very hot and still; the great sea people seemed to be revelling in some sort of Sabbath of their own, and the waters lay quiet and shining under the eye of Heaven.
Our chief joy has been in straying about the town, revelling in the sense of things to be bought.
The very people who abused it were revelling in Wieland's and Crébillon's immoral tales.
I will not allege, as perhaps I might, the example of my companions, then revelling in all the pleasures of the day.
I affected not to perceive this, and even treated myself to a flask of French wine, with the air of a man revelling in undisturbed enjoyment.
How one could fancy the old Gambusino as he sat before his winter fire, half dozing in the solitude of his uncompanionable existence, revelling in all the illusions with which his mind was filled!
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