In the high country, winter evenings were spent around the kitchen fire; we were invited to join several such convivial groups.

Agnes Preus, Mrs. Koren's niece, recalls that the boarders were a convivial group: "At the dinner table there were stories all the time.

Many appetizers and dips invite sharing; an assortment of these and a bottle of Niko's reasonably priced wine would make a fine repast for a convivial group.

It was a convivial group.

He left her, making his way around the convivial group by the fire.

The young man had dined and wined with a convivial group who were evidently habitues of the place.

A convivial group will easily put away a bottle per person at a successful dinner party.

"To family," he said, his gaze sweeping the convivial group, his eyes resting last on his beautiful wife.

Most found places on deck to hunker and eat in convivial groups.

For a moment, we imagine ourselves coming to it not as a convivial group but as casualties, to be laid out and rolled away.