The strains of fiddles and the sound of shuffling feet were pierced occasionally by the whoop of a drunken reveler.

He was "baptized" by some drunken reveler, so that the stench of spilled whisky filled his nostrils and tortured him the night through.

A few drunken revelers happened by, but they were too blind with liquor to notice them.

"Looks like someone's on his way to a party," he told her, turning her quickly toward the group of drunken revelers.