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Wassail in sentence

7 examples of Wassail in a sentence

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!
"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.
Wine and wassail," he added, gravely casting up his eyes--"all the fault of wine and wassail!--I told Allan-a-Dale, the northern minstrel, that he would damage the harp if he touched it after the seventh cup, but he would not be controlled--Friend, I drink to thy successful performance."
Long had the smouldering fire of discord glowed between the tyrant father and his savage son--long had I nursed, in secret, the unnatural hatred--it blazed forth in an hour of drunken wassail, and at his own board fell my oppressor by the hand of his own son--such are the secrets these vaults conceal!--Rend asunder, ye accursed arches," she added, looking up towards the roof, "and bury in your fall all who are conscious of the hideous mystery!""And thou, creature of guilt and misery," said Cedric, "what became thy lot on the death of thy ravisher?"