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Use in Literature

Revelling

Increase Mather denounced the disobedient Colman in the words of Moses to Korah; Cotton Mather revelled in picturing the torments of the bewitched; and, even in the last century Jonathan Edwards frightened people into convulsions by his preaching.–Brooks Adams in The Emancipation of Massachusetts.

The pointed arch revelled at Rheims and the Gothic architects reached perfection at Amiens just as Francis died at Assisi and Thomas was born at Aquino.–Henry Adams in Mont-Saint-Michel And Chartres.

The revels that followed no pen can justly record, for Goths and Vandals on the rampage but feebly describes the youthf ul Wilkinses when their spirits effervesced after a month's bottling up in close home quarters.–Louisa May Alcott in Work: A Story of Experience.

Charles revelled in the idea of growing his own wines.–Grant Allen in An African Millionaire.

He would recreate by revelling in Colorado silver lodes.–Grant Allen in An African Millionaire.

I revelled in this lovely country.–Samuel White Baker in Ismailia.

This conspiracy would have played the game of Abou Saood, and he would have revelled in his success.–Samuel White Baker in Ismailia.

These manoeuvres, planned in cold blood, but enchantingly executed, carved her image deeper and deeper on the soul of that great writer and thinker whom she revelled in making childlike, confiding, simple, and almost silly beside her.–Honoré de Balzac in Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan.

Hamed revels in chillies, fiery, red, vitriolitic little things that would bring tears to the eyes of a molten image.–E.J. Banfield in My Tropic Isle.

One boy gave an exceptionally graphic description of a lagoon on the top of one of the highest peaks of Hinchinbrook Island, in which all manner of sea fish revelled.–E.J. Banfield in The Confessions of a Beachcomber.

• Prefaceiv
• Use in Literature1
• Revelling1
• Revelling – "Being"11
• Revelling – "Call"12
• Revelling – "Day"12
• Revelling – "Evening"13
• Revelling – "Hands"14
• Revelling – "Heart"14
• Revelling – "Houses"15
• Revelling – "Life"15
• Revelling – "Luxury"16
• Revelling – "Master"17
• Revelling – "Men"17
• Revelling – "Natures"18
• Revelling – "Old"19
• Revelling – "Once"19
• Revelling – "Work"20
• Revelling – "Years"20
• Revelling – "Young"21
• Nonfiction Usage23
• Bibliographic Usage23
• Encyclopedic Usage25
• Lexicographic Usage27
• Index34