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The pirates are carousing down by the huts on the shore, for I heard their voices singing and shouting, so I shall have a good chance of not being found out.”

From John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea by Kingston, William Henry Giles

“When gallants are carousing In taverns on a row, Then we sweep o’er the deep When the stormy winds do blow.”

From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by Kingston, William Henry Giles

If we are carousing, at least we are warriors carousing.

From Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)