| 单词 | wassailer |
| 例句 | Various lords of misrule and “wild men” oversaw the merrymaking, and wassailers drank one’s health in exchange for food or money. Review | Christmas: Holy day, holiday or nostalgic wish? 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z The red wine streaming from flagons overturned in struggle, mingled with the life-drops of the wassailers. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. Wi' wine like that before ane," responded the baron, "the topers alongside o' ye may be Frenchmen or Dutchmen, warriors or warlocks, wraiths or wassailers, merchants or mahouns—a's alike. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative Because, issuing through the open windows, the cries of the wassailers, from time to time, also the rattle of drums and blare of hunting horns, reached their ears. The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres But, even so, the "wassailers" were not impeccable, and it is best to leave the story, fact or fable, to speak for itself. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 Dispense with me—I am no wassailer: Command me in all service save the Bacchant's. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry He had been carousing with his followers the night before and the wassailers were roused from their drunken sleep by the war-horns and ran out to see the king's ships driving in towards the piers. Historical Tales, Vol. 9 (of 15) The Romance of Reality. Scandinavian. Singing, snoring, groaning, are the three successive acts o' the wassailers. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative The opportunity was sweet; and yet those boisterous wassailers, they might spoil all. The Young Duke Moore thinks that the picture of these festivities is "pregnant in character," and argues that there were limits to the misbehaviour of the "wassailers." Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" A heedless husbandman you must have been, a gambler or wassailer, to have brought yourself to this sorry pass. Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) The Romance of Reality All was silent save for the intermittent clamor of the wassailers in the room beneath. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady Ah, why, of all the songs that grow Forever tenderer, Chose she that passionate refrain Where lovers 'mid the stir Of wassailers that round them pass Hide their sweet secret? The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation These words were afterwards corrupted into wassail and wassailer. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces While we were dining the wassailers in the great kitchen and general room downstairs became more and more uproarious. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine I should be loth To meet the rudeness and swilled insolence Of such late wassailers; yet, oh! where else Shall I inform my unacquainted feet In the blind mazes of this tangled wood? L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas His companions listened with a rude delight to the rough voice and homely sounds, and now and then interrupted the wassailers at the other tables by cries for silence, which none regarded. Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance Silence and desertion reign supreme, where of yore Bigot's heartless wassailers used to meet and gamble away King Louis's card money and piastres. Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present The wassailers departed, and the Squire went to say a kind word to his humbler guests. Put Yourself in His Place The earth and all its planetary kin, Starry buds tangled in the whirling hair That flames round the Phoebean wassailer, Speed no more ignorant, more predestined flight, Than I, HER viewless tresses netted in. Sister Songs; an offering to two sisters |
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