riotous living
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Those who eluded Scotland Yard for a while had a hellish time, and it is clear that little of the $6,400,000 that is still unaccounted for went towards riotous living.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hard at work from morn till dewy eve, that is from daylight to dark, a matter of fourteen hours, there was scant space or opportunity for riotous living.
From Nevermore by Rolf Bolderwood
One of the biographers points out that this promotion was brought about inadvertently through the riotous living of Gray's great enemy, Lord Sandwich.
From Stories of Authors, British and American by Edwin Watts Chubb
They squander their means in riotous living, and walk not in the ways of their fathers.
From Contemporary One-Act Plays by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
"She thinks," wrote Dolly to the victim, "that you waste your substance in riotous living."
From Vagabondia 1884 by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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