regaling

While we were regaling ourselves round a large fire, some wild beast gave a roar in the bushes.

So you have been regaling Lord Sartoris (an utter stranger to you) with a history of all our private griefs and woes!

I was regaling him with one of the choicest of Messer Sacchetti's paradoxes, gurgling, myself, at the humour of the thing I told.

But the baron had bent down his face, and was regaling himself upon an olive.

We took biscuits and bully beef with us but the hospitable sailors insisted on regaling us with a hot meal.

And the manufacturer could hardly swallow the sips of cognac with which he was regaling himself.

Pettit was doing most of the talking, regaling his two auditors with tales from his abundant store of anecdotes.

He had, however, overlooked some hornets, which were regaling themselves at the same time.

In June the black-billed makes a tour through the orchard and garden, regaling himself upon the canker-worms.

With such pressing business matters on hand, he has no time for regaling you with "linked sweetness long drawn out."