But I wouldn’t necessarily push to abolish Commerce, even if junketing is all it’s good for. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Judd Gregg Hates the Commerce Department] Reference
They had both hoped that a week's "junketing" with lively companions might bring back the pen's good hour. From Wordnik.com. [In the Mist of the Mountains] Reference
I told her and Pauline they mustn't look for me to go junketing. From Wordnik.com. [The S. W. F. Club] Reference
"You are too little for all this junketing, Anne," he said kindly. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls] Reference
Chris, when are we going to cure you of this urge to go junketing?. From Wordnik.com. [Cities In Flight]
It was for the junketing party that the transport had called in at. From Wordnik.com. [ALOHA OE] Reference
The boat went junketing musically on under stars through American velvet. From Wordnik.com. [The Great California Game]
The junketing Raitt, of course, is no stranger to bully-tactics of this kind. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
Honolulu, and it was to the junketing party that Honolulu was saying good-bye. From Wordnik.com. [ALOHA OE] Reference
It was more like junketing than business, and we were as amiable as fat-bellied puppies. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
I caught Spike at the end of a very long day of junketing, so if he looks tired, that is why. From Wordnik.com. [Exclusive Interview: Where The Wild Things Are Director Spike Jonze | /Film] Reference
Better than MPs junketing off to warmer climes during winter. posted by Mark, Ottawa at 3:17 PM. From Wordnik.com. [Putting Afstan together again] Reference
But, I warrant, some idle junketing hath occupied you too deeply to think of your service or your duty. From Wordnik.com. [The Abbot] Reference
He's mildmannered and conservative-no junketing supersalesman type, forever dashing off to view Imperial's vast domain. From Wordnik.com. [Frontiers of the Future] Reference
Rather, he was a logistics expert well known to junketing congressmen who visited Frankfurt, Germany, where Foggo was based. From Wordnik.com. [Intelligence: Goss Goes Out--But the CIA's Struggles Go On] Reference
Johannesburg over worries about accusations of junketing at the expense of the world's poor, The Guardian newspaper reported. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Consequently, to the casual man in the street, we appeared to be only a little party going into the city for a mild junketing. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
Upon this, the third day of junketing, it was tiresome to have to restrain oneself even from such innocent excursions of fancy. From Wordnik.com. [Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf] Reference
I could give rare descriptions of snug junketing parties at which I have been present; where we played at All-Fours, Pope-Joan. From Wordnik.com. [The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon] Reference
One word of caution when junketing with Villabarbosa - he's a poor tipper which does not go over well in some parts of the world. From Wordnik.com. [You Too Can Junket with Mayor V!] Reference
We stood in the doorway between the foyer and the living room, hearing snatches of conversation among the three junketing Senators. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
Floors clean as well as places above them, not to sit up junketing and gigling with Fellows, when she should be in bed, such an one is a. From Wordnik.com. [The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet Stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying and cookery. Very pleasant and beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sex] Reference
It is easy for him to talk of reparation, fresh from journeying and junketing in foreign lands, and living a life of vanity and pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [Little Dorrit] Reference
Pierre was that nothing of all the daytime junketing remained. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 3] Reference
Coupeau and Lantier were forever going out junketing together. From Wordnik.com. [L'Assommoir] Reference
No member of congress involved, just the junketing of her kids. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
Nor to an occasional junketing at Vauxhall do I ever turn queasy. From Wordnik.com. [The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...] Reference
I could give rare descriptions of snug junketing parties at which. From Wordnik.com. [The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon] Reference
London, Mr. Pickwick's final junketing before retiring to Dulwich. From Wordnik.com. [Pickwickian Manners and Customs] Reference
You're going to take a junketing honeymoon off with me, or I'll know the reason why!. From Wordnik.com. [The Squirrel-Cage] Reference
The formal engagement was marked by even greater junketing, and at last the marriage day came. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by English Authors: London (Selected by Scribners)] Reference
Mrs. Moulton was delighted to have me back again, and I was glad to rest after all my junketing. From Wordnik.com. [In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters] Reference
Mud-hens gabbled in a slew, alfalfa shone with unearthly green, and bees went junketing toward a field of red clover. From Wordnik.com. [Free Air] Reference
After they had built their water-house and laid their pipes, it occurred to them that the place was suitable for junketing. From Wordnik.com. [Edinburgh Picturesque Notes] Reference
Queen and her suite are junketing around in their royal yachts on the coast of France, while proposing to celebrate her year of. From Wordnik.com. [Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 6] Reference
"Well, you see," said Hal, "it ought to be more than just a dance; I mean more like a partner for a, -- for a junketing of some kind.". From Wordnik.com. [Patty's Social Season] Reference
Active, steady workmen, not given to junketing and taverns, are so rare that masters hold to young men like Brigaut when they find them. From Wordnik.com. [The Celibates] Reference
The people of Norway are a frugal race, and to the older nobles all this feasting and junketing seemed like wild, needless extravagance. From Wordnik.com. [Tales From Scottish Ballads] Reference
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