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He was proud of small advantages, angry at small disappointments, incapable of forming any resolution or opinion abstracted from his own prejudices he was proud of his birth, lavish in his housekeeping, convivial with those kindred and acquaintances, who would allow his superiority in rank contentious and quarrelsome with all that crossed his pretensions kind to the poor, except when they plundered his game a Royalist in his political opinions, and one who detested alike a Roundhead, a poacher, and a Presbyterian.
Sir Richard Greenville was Vice-Admiral to Lord Thomas Howard, and lay off the Azores with the English squadron in 1591. He was a noted tyrant to his crew: a dark, bullying fellow apparently; and it is related of him that he would chew and swallow wine-glasses, by way of convivial levity, till the blood ran out of his mouth.
The improvising songster is missed, the convivial essayist, the humorous Dean, the travelled cynic, and he, the one of his day, the iridescent Irishman, whose remembered repartees are a feast, sharp and ringing, at divers tables descending from the upper to the fat citizen's, where, instead of coming in the sequence of talk, they are exposed by blasting, like fossil teeth of old Deluge sharks in monotonous walls of our chalk-quarries.
It was Saturday noon, and the township of Loo was rapidly filling with convivial shearers. The sheds were cutting out at Dim Distance, Devil's Bend, and the Emu, and the men were full of money, and eager for beer and diversion.
Through a little gate close by Peter's house Madeline and her sister had just passed on their evening walk, and with the kind familiarity for which they were both noted, they had stopped to salute the landlady of the Spotted Dog, as she now, her labours done, sat by the threshold, within hearing of the convivial group, and plaiting straw.
Dreams of turtle and of grand master the fish, not the official and of consecutive iced champagne, mock our sight! But more yes! far more than all, are we reminded of thy abode thou dispenser of cheering liquids! thou promoter of convivial happiness! meek Saverio!
Those who enjoy themselves only in society, whether intellectual or convivial, prepare themselves for it, and such make but a poor figure when forced to be content with the sweets of solitude: while, on the other hand, those to whom retirement affords the greatest pleasure, seldom give or receive much in society.
He was a convivial soul, a lover of good cheer and free-handed hospitality; and to-day, while almost forgotten as a jurist, his name has become immortalized as the representative of gastronomic excellence.
He gathered up some of the long hair he had cut off Seaton's chin with his scissors, admired it, and put it away in paper. While thus employed, a regular customer looked in for his cup of coffee. It was the policeman who had taken Seaton for a convivial soul. GENERAL ROLLESTON'S servants made several trips to the Proserpine, carrying boxes, etc.
"Perhaps not," lisped Melville, tightening his belt; "but it's devilish convivial, eh, Doctor?" "Is that like him?" said Moreton, producing a caricature which he had just sketched. "Capital, very good, perfect. M'Cleary shall have it in his window by noon to-day," said Power.
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