Pickwick; and the stranger took
wine, first with him, and then with Mr.
When our Italian hosts had offered me
wine in a general sort of way, I had declined.
Thereupon Dummling asked to have her for his wife; but the king did not like the son-in- law, and made all manner of excuses and said he must first produce a man who could drink a cellarful of
wine. Dummling thought of the little grey man, who could certainly help him; so he went into the forest, and in the same place where he had felled the tree, he saw a man sitting, who had a very sorrowful face.
"'Tis a very expensive
wine," said Blaisois, shaking his head.
Moreover, he avowed his perfect willingness to swallow as much
wine as desired.
I also took a goatskin of sweet black
wine which had been given me by Maron, son of Euanthes, who was priest of Apollo the patron god of Ismarus, and lived within the wooded precincts of the temple.
"Well!" resumed the Catalan, as he saw the final glimmer of Caderousse's reason vanishing before the last glass of
wine.
Between her and her hand-press on the mountain clearing and him ordering his
wine in the hotel was a difference of seven dollars and seventy-eight cents.
The time was to come, when that
wine too would be spilled on the street-stones, and when the stain of it would be red upon many there.
X said he had not known, before, that there were people honest enough to do this miracle in public, but he was aware that thousands upon thousands of labels were imported into America from Europe every year, to enable dealers to furnish to their customers in a quiet and inexpensive way all the different kinds of foreign
wines they might require.
drink three cups of
wine, the "Golden Valley" being the name of a garden, the owner of which enforced this penalty among his boon companions (`Gems of Chinese Literature', p.
"I never dine without
wine, sir" (which was a pitiful falsehood), and looked around upon the company to bask in the admiration he expected to find in their faces.
To Pierre all men seemed like those soldiers, seeking refuge from life: some in ambition, some in cards, some in framing laws, some in women, some in toys, some in horses, some in politics, some in sport, some in
wine, and some in governmental affairs.
There is our
wine in bottles, and our
wine in casks; the beer, the oil, and the spices, the bacon, and sausages.
Hock is full of fancy, and all
wines are by their very nature full of reminiscence, the golden tears and red blood of summers that are gone.