convivialists

In such a small society it would be strange if two young men with so much in common did not come together: they were the sons of landed gentlemen who had married into the aristocracy, were both outstanding horsemen, keen sportsmen, and popular convivialists, and may even have discovered a bond of suffering from their schooldays (Flashman at Arnold's Rugby, Whyte-Melville at Eton under the notorious Keate).

Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

Note: [2.7] jesters and mourners, teetotalers and convivialists, deacons and blacklegs; hard-shell Baptists and clay-eaters; grinning negroes, and Sioux chiefs solemn as high-priests.

The Confidence-Man 1857

Mormons and Papists Dives and Lazarus; jesters and mourners, teetotalers and convivialists, deacons and blacklegs; hard-shell Baptists and clay-eaters; grinning negroes, and Sioux chiefs solemn as high-priests.

The Confidence-Man Herman Melville 1855

Besides the "Madeira wine," so famous among convivialists, there are others of higher price and superior estimation.

Journal of an African Cruiser Horatio Bridge 1849

The good-natured convivialists differed from all other backbiters that I have ever met, in the same manner as the toads of Surinam differ from all other toads; namely, their venomous offspring were not half formed, misshapen tadpoles of slander, but sprang at once into life, -- well shaped and fully developed.

Devereux — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

The night was far gone, and so were the wits of the honest tax-gatherers, when the president commanded silence, and the convivialists knew that their chief was about to issue forth the orders for the ensuing term.

Paul Clifford — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

What with the supper, what with the punch, and what with Kenelm's art of cheery talk on general subjects, all reserve, all awkwardness, all shyness between the convivialists, rapidly disappeared.

Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 07 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Order being thus restored, the conversation of the convivialists began to assume a most fascinating bias.

Paul Clifford — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

The good-natured convivialists differed from all other backbiters that I have ever met, in the same manner as the toads of Surinam differ from all other toads; namely, their venomous offspring were not half formed, misshapen tadpoles of slander, but sprang at once into life, -- well shaped and fully developed.

Devereux — Volume 04 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

What with the supper, what with the punch, and what with Kenelm's art of cheery talk on general subjects, all reserve, all awkwardness, all shyness between the convivialists, rapidly disappeared.

Kenelm Chillingly — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838