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It was unlucky, however, for the cause of conviviality, that he was rather indisposed that day, and could take very little wine. But fortune now seemed to make amends to him for this deprivation, for he won at almost every throw. The flushed youth curses his luck, but doubles his stakes till he has lost a heavy sum.
Sunday coming round, he set off therefore, after breakfast, once more to beat up Captain Cuttle's quarters. This the Captain, in a moment of uncommon conviviality, had confided to Walter and his Uncle, between the repetitions of lovely Peg, on the night when Brogley the broker was paid out.
Now, is it not possible that our classic origin may have imparted to us the trait I am speaking of, and that “the gentleman” is retained as typical of our exceeding hilarity and consummate conviviality an evidence to the “great unasked” that the festivities within doors are conducted on a scale of boundless profusion and extravagance that the fountains from which honour flows, run also with champagne, and that punch and the peerage are to be seen bubbling from the same source.
He was quite unable to speak, but he signed to the young librarian to open one of the bottles and pour its contents into the two tumblers of thick and rather dusty glass that Jellybrand's kept for its moments of conviviality. Malkiel the Second lifted the goblet to the window and eyed the beaded nectar with an air of almost rakish anticipation.
The train of thought inevitably forced upon me by all I had been a spectator of during the day, but little disposed me to be a partaker in the mirth and conviviality which, as usual, formed the staple of the assize dinners of Mr. Larkins; and I accordingly took an early opportunity to quit the company and retire for the night.
Branwell is the Philosopher, John Brown is the Old Knave of Trumps. The whole trouble with Branwell was that he could not resist the temptation of impressing the grave-digger. He himself was impressed by the ironic union in the Worshipful Master of conviviality and a sinister occupation. Postlethwaite.
Goodyear wanted to take her up and put her into the Fortnightly, it wasn't so much Eleanor's disinclination as my own laziness about getting up gowns and paddling about paying calls which kept me back and that's God's truth." "And these penitential exercises in detective work what have they brought forth?" "He's a little careless morally, I think. He's had too much conviviality about the Club.
While the conviviality was at its height, the Prince of Orange, with Counts Horn and Egmont, made their appearance. Immediately they were surrounded by the now half-intoxicated beggars, who compelled each of them to drink from the bowl, amid shouts of "Vivent le Roi et les Gueux!" From this time forward Antwerp was in a state of constant excitement and commotion.
It was when we reached the lighter portion of the feast that tongues were unloosed, and conviviality bloomed like an exotic flower in Mrs. Handsomebody's dining-room. Mary Ellen placed a plateful of scraps on the floor before Anita. She said, "That ought to stand to her, pore thing! She do be awful ganted." "These 'ere fancies is wot tikes me," said Mr.
And owre they flap." But nobody understood him. "Drink and vanity'll soon make end of him," said Brodie curtly, and snubbed the philosopher. His shrinking abhorrence from the scholastic life of Edinburgh flung him with all the greater abandon into the conviviality he had learned to know at home. "You're unco late, dear," she would say wearily, but no other reproach did she utter.
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