“The scene below her resembled not so much a siege as the morning after a drunken carouse, and that, Joanna knew, was what the night had been.”

“But I have not yet mentioned all that contributes to the pleasures of an Eastern carousal.”

“At university, both plunged into a side-life of journalism and nocturnal carousal.”

“A holdover from the bare-knuckle days, he had squandered much of his fortune during years of drunken carousal.”

“His image is reminiscent of that of Henry V of England in his transformation from a youthful carouser to an audacious warrior and ruler.”

“The former was an adventure-loving carouser, the latter a lavish patron of Daoist alchemists.”

“She married a Polish factory worker who apparently had some local renown as a drinker and carouser, and he walked out when Edna was seven.”

“The early closing time of pubs meant that carousers were forced to gather at dusk in private homes, where the host would tap a barrel.”

“The air is warm and still enough that I didn't even need a sweater, and the sidewalks were already lined with carousers.”

“These verses have been quoted by Arab carousers though the centuries.”