riotous

• “The Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela played it twice in riotous fashion at Carnegie Hall, first in its Sunday afternoon program, then as an encore after its concert last night.”

  Berlin in Lights: One ‘Mambo’ Less - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com

• “Then you see that 'tis all owing to me that —" She broke off to shake O'Hara, and the meeting ended in riotous hilarity.”

  The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century

• “It was the first money my pen had ever earned; I did not squander it in riotous living, neither did I invest it in necessary boots and gloves.”

  The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career

• “And then she heard a man's voice lifted up in riotous song, and she turned her head toward the opening of the gorge and listened, her eyes brightening while she waited.”

  The Ranch at the Wolverine

• “The sunflowers grow in riotous fertility, and have a habit of massing themselves in brilliant patches.”

  Janey Canuck in the West

• “Alas!' said I, 'I spent the thirty dollars in riotous living.”

  Local Colour

• “Many Southern women had to cook, too, and could do it well; to patch and darn, and often to provide food and raiment for the household, because the husband and father frequented drink-shops or wasted his substance in riotous living.”

  The Congress of Women: Held in the Woman's Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, U. S. A., 1893, With Portraits, Biographies and Addresses

• “They were exposed to persecutions, though apparently not systematic, but rather annoyances and reproach arising from their not joining their heathen neighbors in riotous living, into which, however, some of them were in danger of falling.”

  Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

• “With bold and cautious footsteps, Dames explored the palace of the governor, who celebrated, in riotous merriment, the festival of his deliverance.”

  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

• “It was only yesterday that our local saw a street row here in the quiet avenues of our peaceful city -- a street row recalling the riotous scenes which took place here before Dead Horse experienced a change of heart and became New Centreville.”

  Stories by American Authors, Volume 1

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