Uncle Tom’s Cabin vocabulary

St. Clare was invited out to a convivial party of choice spirits, and was helped home, between one and two o’clock at night, in a condition when the physical had decidedly attained the upper hand of the intellectual.

Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)

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[...] and they had introduced themselves with the same tales of woe and misery that are common to rehabs everywhere, except it was followed by laughter and much conviviality, because that's how they deal with unpleasant things in Kiribati - with a smile.

J. Maarten Troost. Headhunters on My Doorstep, p.236 (2013)

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Plum-pudding is the term bestowed upon certain fragmentary parts of the whale's flesh, here and there adhering to the blanket of blubber, and often participating to a considerable degree in its unctuousness. It is a most refreshing, convivial, beautiful object to behold.

Herman Melville. Moby Dick