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Examples
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But we must hie away from these "junketings" -- these festive boards, which our loyal ancestors seem to have infinitely enjoyed.
Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present 1868
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Back from twice around the world he was, and from interminable junketings up and down on far stretches, home-coming to the wife he had not seen in eight-and-twenty months, and to the child he had never seen and that was already walking and talking.
THE SEA FARMER 2010
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Likewise there were comings and goings, and junketings, all perfectly proper, by the way, which caused the men to say sharp things and the women to be spiteful.
THE SCORN OF WOMEN 2010
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Likewise there were comings and goings, and junketings, all perfectly proper, by the way, which caused the men to say sharp things and the women to be spiteful.
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But Mrs Varden, whose practical religion (as is not uncommon) was usually of the retrospective order, cut him short by declaiming on the sinfulness of such junketings, and holding that it was high time to go to bed.
Barnaby Rudge 2007
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I have often recalled that cheerful party to my pleasant recollection since, and shall not easily forget, in junketings nearer home with friends of older date, my boon companions on the
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In the summer months all sorts of junketings and pleasure-parties are devised; and there are countless proposals to go to Ranelagh, to Hampstead, to Vauxhall, to Marylebone Gardens, and what not.
The Virginians 2006
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It would be a long task to describe how these disappeared one by one — how there were no more junketings at Belsize, or trips to Highgate, or
The Virginians 2006
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He little dreamed till then, not he, that there had been banquetings and junketings, secret doings and deep drinkings at his expense.
Doctor Thorne 2004
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His house is luxuriously furnished; entertainments are frequent, and the junketings of his women make up a heavy bill at the end of the year.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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