| The community could celebrate a marriage-or it could express its disapproval through a charivari, or shivaree. |
| The performance of the charivari was common at that time in the South of France. |
| There was no charivari, because their marriage was suitable. |
| If there was one there were fifty big locomotives waiting to charivari the McWilliams Special. |
| The music for this stage charivari has not survived, if indeed it ever existed, but one can well imagine its discordant effect. |
| Some of the charivari party had to fly, or they might have ended their days in the penitentiary. |
