| 1. | Hark the infernal orgies that revelry is forward mark the unfaltering silence aft Methinks it pictures life. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 2. | When the revelry of his companions had mounted to its height, this man slipped away unobserved, and I saw no more of him till he became my comrade on the sea. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 3. | Among this witches' revelry His way one gladly loses And, truly, it would easier be Than to command the Muses. - from Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| 4. | And only for their mirth and revelry Upon the warden busily they cry, To give them leave for but a little stound. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 5. | Then the colonel, who began to show signs of feebleness, sat down on a bench in the courtyard and began demonstrating to Yashvin the superiority of Russia over Poland, especially in cavalry attack, and there was a lull in the revelry for a moment. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 6. | The blacksmiths from a neighboring smithy, hearing the sounds of revelry in the tavern and supposing it to have been broken into, wished to force their way in too and a fight in the porch had resulted. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |