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1. They spent the next two hours in riotous laughter seriously mocking the actors and making like the ‘bugs’
2. They burst into riotous applause and cheering wildly, they carried old Ted on their shoulders all the way to a brand new Winnebago that was parked at the far end of the show ground
3. They knew how much these creatures feared the laser pit, so they whipped them up into a riotous frenzy, and in the inevitable panic that followed, made their way to the docking area and waited
4. Both began to sway back and forth to the sound for several minutes; and then suddenly they burst out in riotous laughter
5. It was obvious his troops knew what she meant because they burst into riotous laughter
6. They burst into riotous applause and cheering
7. into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living
8. Their lords and masters were hourly returning in bodies and being paid off; and in the native quarter at least, everyone gave himself over to a somewhat riotous jollification
9. A copy of the “Army and Navy Register” of July 23rd was produced, and in English, which three-fourths of the officers there understood, a captain read: “The Cubans insurgents felt, when Santiago capitulated, that they should be privileged to sack the city and gratify their lust for robbery, greed, and generally riotous living
10. The rest were not disciplined, and nothing more than a riotous mob in our eyes
11. Their riotous myths were always the preferred fodder of the easily deceived masses
12. heavy pollution hanging in the air had made for riotous sunrises and
13. There he wasted his property with riotous living
14. A certain man had two sons; and the younger of them said to his father: Father give me the portion of goods that comes to me; and he divided between them his living and not many days after the younger son gathered all together and took his journey into a far country and there wasted his substance with riotous living and when he had spent all there arose a mighty famine in that land and he began to be in wanting and he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country and he sent him into his fields to feed swine and he would imagine having filled his belly with the husks that the swine ate and no man gave it to him; and when he came to himself he said: How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare and I perish from hunger! I will arise and go to my father and will say to him Father I have sinned against Heaven and before you and am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me as one of your hired servants and he arose and came to his father but when he was still a great way off his father saw him and had compassion and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him and the son said to him Father I have sinned against Heaven and in your sight and am no longer worthy to be called your son but the father said to his servants Bring out the best robe and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet and bring here the fatted calf and kill it; and let us eat and be merry; because this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is now found; and they began to be merry
15. Livestock were dying and the people became riotous
16. When the sole means of discipline is the strap or cane, even young children are prone to take advantage of such situations and become riotous
17. ” They had gone back out to the main area of the club where people attired in various costumes and stages of undress mingled together, dancing, feeling, squeezing, smoking, drinking and generally having a riotous good time
18. At the conclusion of the piece everyone erupted into riotous celebration
19. 7 "Within a few weeks the young man gathered together all his funds and set out upon a journey to a far country, and finding nothing profitable to do which was also pleasurable, he soon wasted all his inheritance in riotous living
20. So the rulers have the right to enforce peace by invading their own starving riotous people
21. The sun was shining brightly now through the skeletal trees and the birds were singing in a riotous chorus
22. But still, the crowds gasped as he walked by, their gasps soon evolving into riotous cheers and applause as they began to shout out, "Kabaakia! Kabaakia! Kabaakia!" A bastardized version of the N'bari word for 'Chieftain,' that was the name that Euric had given him as part of the backstory he had secretly spread around the capital
23. ” Like a spent wind-up toy, Cook halted his attack and returned to his riotous assault on the helpless spuds
24. for the riotous flowers that splashed their colors onto
25. that most of the city’s population thronged the riotous
26. On the other hand, variety without unity to govern it is a riotous exuberance of life, lacking all power and restraint and wasting itself in a madness of excess
27. This idea has evidently arisen from the inability of the average person to associate an unconventional mode of life with anything but riotous dissipation
28. It was a rocking tune called 'I predict a riotous Saturday night' but it turned out later that the original singer who had been a real meat loaf wasn't happy that he lost money so they had to go before the bats of hell over royalty's
29. But the riotous roar of the crowd was painful
30. "Give us a song, mates," shouted someone in the cart and everyone in the cart joined in a riotous song, jingling a tambourine and whistling
31. Brooke and Ned the other, while Fred Vaughn, the riotous twin, did his best to upset both by paddling about in a wherry like a disturbed water bug
32. Saturday afternoons are riotous times, whether spent in the house or out, for on pleasant days they all go to walk, like a seminary, with the Professor and myself to keep order, and then such fun!
33. she used to say, looking about her with wistful eyes, as if trying to discover the charm, that she might use it in her great house, full of splendid loneliness, for there were no riotous, sunny-faced babies there, and Ned lived in a world of his own, where there was no place for her
34. There were slow boys and bashful boys, feeble boys and riotous boys, boys that lisped and boys that stuttered, one or two lame ones, and a merry little quadroon, who could not be taken in elsewhere, but who was welcome to the 'Bhaer-garten', though some people predicted that his admission would ruin the school
35. "My father's grief, and consequent tenderness to his children, quickly abated, the house grew still more gloomy or riotous; and my refuge from care was again
36. turbulent and riotous, threw us into a fond disorder, and as they raged to
37. He goes to Pepper’s riotous, perplexing concerts and pays attention to Claire
38. As the son grew a young man, he turned out riotous, extravagant, undutiful,—altogether bad
39. Thankfully, at curtain call, the riotous applause and standing ovation woke B
40. Never had they noticed the roses so vivid, the willow-herb so riotous, the meadow-sweet so odorous and pervading
41. darted up my inwards-, from him, but I was punctually on flow, to share the momentary extasy; but I had yet greater reason to boast of our harmony: for finding that all the flames of desire were not yet quenched within me, but that rather, like wetted coals, I glowed the fiercer for this sprinkling, my hot-mettled spark, sympathizing with me, and loaded for a double fire, recontinued the sweet battery with undying vigour; greatly encouraged to accommodate all my motions to his best advantage and delight; kisses, squeezes, tender murmurs, all came into play, till our joys growing more turbulent and riotous, threw us into a fond disorder, and as they raged to a point, bore us far from our selves into an ocean of boundless pleasures, into which we both plunged together in a transport of taste
42. The revelry, which went on all night, was so riotous that one man marveled at the fact that all the POWs were still alive when the sun came up
43. There was an offensive tone in it, perhaps, and yet in the main it struck me as mere riotous outcry, the noisy reception of one who amused and interested them, rather than of one they disliked or despised
44. Scarlett saw Melanie standing by her and, slight little person in black mourning dress, her riotous dark curls subdued to matronly smoothness and a loving smile of welcome and happiness on her heart-shaped face
45. Teenagers in groups, dressed and accessorized in rebellion and yet dressed alike, some intent on texting or playing games on their phones even with the riotous carnival clamoring for their attention and their dollars all around them
46. The autumnal mood possessed us both as though the riotous exuberance of June had died with the gillyflowers whose scent at my windows now yielded to the damp leaves, smouldering in a corner of the quad
47. The silent footage makes the clockwork movements of players skittering across the stage seem all the more comical and ridiculous, given the supposedly riotous circumstances
48. He didn’t know what to do, give her a chummy shove or reach for her hand or try to kiss her again, so finally, while she watched from the stoop of the strange house, he pushed off into the riotous shadows and headed approximately north, toward where he hoped the station wagon still was
49. He couldn’t help feeling elation in the midst of this crazy, almost riotous room, though
50. Every building was carefully maintained and fresh-painted each year in what he was told was a riotous public festival, and the streets were lined with beautiful gardens, flowers, trees, fountains, all carefully groomed