Saturday, December 4, 2010

carouse - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes

"When they had brought her to the Hall the maiden was placed in an upper chamber, while Hugo and his friends sat down to a long carouse, as was their nightly custom. Now, the poor lass upstairs was like to have her wits turned at the singing and shouting and terrible oaths which came up to her from below, for they say that the words used by Hugo Baskerville, when he was in wine, were such as might blast the man who said them. "

carouse - Wiktionary
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