Wassail
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"And I," said the Templar, filling his goblet, "drink
wassail
to the fair Rowena; for since her namesake introduced the word into England, has never been one more worthy of such a tribute.
More example sentences with word wassail
When they all tired of blind-man's buff, there was a great game at snap-dragon, and when fingers enough were burned with that, and all the raisins were gone, they sat down by the huge fire of blazing logs to a substantial supper, and a mighty bowl of wassail, something smaller than an ordinary wash- house copper, in which the hot apples were hissing and bubbling with a rich look, and a jolly sound, that were perfectly irresistible.
'It will be two hours, good, before you see the bottom of the bowl through the deep rich colour of the wassail; fill up all round, and now for the song.'
Again was the fire replenished, and again went the
wassail
round.
Wardle smiled, as every head was bent forward to hear, and filling out the
wassail
with no stinted hand, nodded a health to Mr. Pickwick, and began as follows--But bless our editorial heart, what a long chapter we have been betrayed into!
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