"If I look a little tired, it's because I am," Mr. Ferrer told a raucous gathering in Manhattan of 1199/S.

Since the clubs are within blocks of one another, the city's literati often spend the night stumbling from one raucous gathering to the next through the narrow streets.

Senator John Edwards concluded a week of fund-raising with a raucous gathering in downtown Hartford.

A raucous Fijian gathering of British media executives winds up being such a cultural outrage that it makes an elderly Fijian waiter cry.

Its happiest scene is a raucous extended-family gathering presided over by the boys' widowed mother (Clare Higgins), who sings traditional folk songs in a haunting, dusky alto.

The night before the Fourth was once the focal point of celebrations, marked by raucous gatherings often incorporating bonfires as their centerpiece.

Some meetings of the Second Continental Congress were held there, as were more raucous gatherings where prodigious quantities of alcohol were consumed.

"Groups of 10 or under are great," said a novelist who's still recovering from a raucous gathering at a West Village restaurant attended by 19 of her nearest and dearest.

Or amid a raucous gathering of family and friends?

A crisis erupts when Tami follows a boy on whom she has a crush to a raucous gathering at a holiday bonfire, where a pack of teenage boys are singing lewd songs.