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Alcuin told the first holy Roman emperor to ignore such declarations of public godliness “since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2024

Before him, our liveliness never passed into vulgar riotousness; if we were all melancholy—this half childlike melancholy, in his presence, led on to quiet, sometimes fairly sensible, conversation, and never ended in dejected boredom.

From The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance

Among the boys the day passed in riotousness.

From The Outlet by Adams, Andy

Why should they wear their lives out so that a rapacious landlord whom they never saw should live in riotousness and debauchery in the hells of London or the Continent?

From Ireland Since Parnell by Sheehan, D. D. (Daniel Desmond)

It was sure to him that he must set his influence against this unorganized day of waste and riotousness.

From The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains by Hough, Emerson