John's Father inspired him by regaling with stories of hard fought battles and triumphant victories.

He took to wearing his bishop's vestments and regaling his flock with obscene jests concerning the unlikelihood of the virgin birth.

There, standing beside a large fire, regaling the gathered seamen with some tale or other, was Martin Alonzo Pinz n. He had come back.

Interior of a Dutch Chamber, with Feasants regaling; after Adriaen van Ostade.

The next day onward, Stanley brings his own dabba to school and shares it with everyone while regaling them with details about how his mother prepared everything.

The story begins with Sinbad (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) regaling a group of travelers around a night-time campfire.

Next morning Chullunder Ghose reopened the quarrel between them by regaling Tsang-yang with tales that he said Tsang-Mondrong had told of him.

The nominal host sat on his hands for four hours, regaling guests with his own experiences abroad, most of them either instructive or amusing, while his wife kept the party going.

Bearing witness was the scene all around her in the Members' Room, where a slightly tipsy Vic Damone-ish lounge singer was regaling 30 or so of the club's biggest spenders.

LEAD: President Bush is walking a fine line in regaling Republican political rallies with denunciations of Iraq's "brazen blackmail" and such self-justifying rhetoric as "every use of force is an invitation to further aggression."

While it was expected that the inviter would pay for dinner, Crisp did his best to "sing for his supper" by regaling his hosts with wonderful stories and yarns much as he did in his theatrical performances.

While financially Michael McIntyre and John Bishop may no longer qualify as part of the "squeezed middle", as ordinary family men, regaling their fans with tales of sleep-deprivation and recalcitrant offspring, they're symptomatic of how, even on a good day, life is full of knockabout travails.

It was very hot; the servant was carrying away piles of dirty plates with a strong scent of boiled fowl and rice, while the four gentlemen had ended by regaling quite half a dozen couples with capital wine in the hope of making them tipsy and hearing some pretty stiffish things.

So the large one decided to regale them with further information.

Each week she would regale us with her daily problems in living.

More important, she'll be regaled with all the things she missed.

And now he was regaling her with tales of America.

Now the men wanted him to regale them with how wonderful it was.

The boy regaled them with his plans for training the animal.

He regaled them with stories about his research, which had taken him virtually all over the world.

Between numbers he regaled the audience with drug stories of the 60's.

By the age of 10, my daughter stepped into the lead as she regaled us with school stories.

They also make up the bulk of the stories that children are regaled with when young.

Had there been a free moment, I would have regaled the boy with my sea tales.

"I hope you'll come back and regale us again," he told her.

As he regaled me with his adventures on the road, I began to feel more normal.

The next minute he was laughing and regaling me with stories about you.

An older American couple regales us with stories about their travels around the world over many years.

He regaled us often with his wonderful stories and charming company.

There is nothing better than listening to your characters regale you.

I decided to regale my guests with a combination of the two.

Or the times she would regale with me tales of her sexual activity.

And he also regales the teachers, most of whom are half his age, with stories about Kenya's earlier days.

Have you a tale or two with which to regale us?"

Needless to say, William does not regale his friends or family with war stories.

Maybe she figured he could regale her with more stories indefinitely.

They stayed after, and said the story the character tells during the play is one he has been regaling his family with for years.

When a woman loses a baby, she is regaled with stories much more horrible than her own.