It would have been hard to find four happier people, unless you had stepped outside and searched among the horde of emancipated writers who were dancing the Carmagnole so blithely around the shoe-shining stand.
Blandings Castle. 12 The Castaways
The fact that it was he himself who had suggested this distressing exhibition, recalling, as it did in his opinion, the worst excesses of the Carmagnole of the French Revolution combined with some of the more risqué feature of native dances he had seen in Equatorial Africa, did nothing to assuage the darkness of his mood.
Ring for Jeeves. Chapter 14