| 单词 | metheglin |
| 例句 | She might have left while I was sitting at the bar, drinking in metheglin and praise. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z That is all I have to say of metheglin. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z A spiced variety called metheglin is another strain, and there’s the national drink of Ethiopia — Tej — a honey wine fermented with gesho, a tree root found there. | Wild Blossom Meads 2011-01-06T14:00:24Z The tipple is based on a 16th century Welsh drink called metheglin. Welsh 'super mead' could prevent food poisoning - BBC News 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z To make verses to the widow, on the other hand, came as easy as sipping usquebaugh or metheglin. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Of mead or metheglin, the third indigenous liquor of Southern Britain, I know little. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z Many households used it in large quantity instead of beer or metheglin, storing many barrels for everyday use. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z Great plotting and planning must have gone on before the hearths, while the passing tankards of metheglin cheered and warmed the indignant gentlemen from Maryland. The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People 2011-07-17T02:00:38.770Z Adding medicinal herbs to mead dates back at least four centuries, when Welsh brewers created a drink then called metheglin or meddyglyn. Welsh 'super mead' could prevent food poisoning - BBC News 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Good store of sack had been found there too, with claret, metheglin, and other dainty drinks. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z Because if you don't she will compel you to partake of metheglin and unleavened bread, which means sudden death. Mrs. Geoffrey 2011-02-27T03:00:29.460Z The Welsh make no less account of metheglin than the Greeks did of their ambrosia or nectar, which for the pleasantness thereof was supposed to be such as the gods themselves did delight in. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z Maybe a whole horn of metheglin was passed around in true medieval fashion to "speed the parting guests." The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People 2011-07-17T02:00:38.770Z In the middle of the room stood, on the ground, a high copper vessel half filled with sweet metheglin, and by its side a drinking-horn of pure gold. Fairy Tales From all Nations 2011-01-16T03:00:21.797Z Such quantities of meat and bread were served that every man had all he wanted to eat, while casks of metheglin were constantly on tap. Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale 2010-12-30T03:00:21.423Z Not fizz at all, but that old brewing of honey—mead—metheglin—old Saxon swizzle. Sir Hilton's Sin In Virginia, whole plantations of honey locust were set out to supply metheglin. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z The sisters of Alorcus, with lowered eyes, their flowery tunics floating about their strong, virginal forms, passed before the warriors, offering drinking horns filled with metheglin and beer. Sónnica The Welsh formerly drank their ale, mead, or metheglin out of earthen vessels, glazed and painted, within and without, with dainty devices. The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. In most households there were sideboards well furnished with spirits, brandy, homemade wine, metheglin, etc., which were offered to guests. Quaker Hill A Sociological Study Mead and metheglin, with other drinks, flowed in abundance; and vile rumor says the saints and their people were rendered equally unstable thereby. Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities Ample store was there of rum, both of New England and the West Indies, of Lisbon wine, of cider and madigolum, which may have been metheglin. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z If it wasn’t men, it was horses, or cattle, or pigs, or metheglin—that’s a sticky, sweet sort of beer. Puck of Pook’s Hill Presently servants came in and set wine before them—honey-mead and Danish beer, and metheglin and sweet cakes. Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations The "good dame," I suppose, was Mrs. Parlin; and she gave them to drink, it is true, but nothing stronger than metheglin, or egg nog, or flip. Little Grandfather By adding water until it will just bear a potato, boiling and skimming, and letting it ferment, it will make metheglin, or by letting the fermentation proceed it will make vinegar. Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained Mead and metheglin, wherewith the Druids and old English bards were wont to carouse, were made from water, honey, and yeast. Customs and Fashions in Old New England The bear's meat was discussed with fairness and spirit, and pronounced right fat and fine; and the supper, washed down before and after with metheglin of Aunt Polly's happiest mix, was taken with good relish. Summerfield or, Life on a Farm Great jugs of heavy black leather, waxed and bound, and tipped with silver, were used to hold metheglin, ale, and beer, and were a very substantial, and at times a very handsome vessel. Home Life in Colonial Days In some houses it very nearly resembled the good metheglin, very common in the northern counties of England. Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 Where metheglin was making he would linger round the tubs and vessels, begging a draught of what he called bee-wine. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 This strong drink was metheglin, of which two hogsheads were to be delivered at Plymouth. Customs and Fashions in Old New England We find Aunt Polly too, and she lays down her distaff, welcomes us in, tells us a story of the backwoods, and gives us a taste of her new metheglin. Summerfield or, Life on a Farm Popular drinking-mugs of the English, from which specially they drank their mead, metheglin, and ale, were the stoneware jugs which were made in Germany and England, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, in great numbers. Home Life in Colonial Days Dealt out charily, was the fair comb to the gratified little ones, Or, to fermentation yielded, producing the spirited metheglin. Man of Uz, and Other Poems Wouldn't you like an applejack or a stiff metheglin to make you sleep sound? A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett I find in his diary references to these drinks: Ale, beer, mead, metheglin, tea, chocolate, sage tea, cider, wine, sillabub, claret, sack, canary, punch, sack-posset, and black cherry brandy. Customs and Fashions in Old New England There he worked and talked and entertained, made his metheglin and aqua vitæ and other messes, till his last illness in 1665. The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened In Virginia whole plantations of the honey-locust furnished locust beans for making metheglin. Home Life in Colonial Days I immediately quoted an extract from an Icelandic Saga to the effect that dead bees give a stinging quality to the very metheglin of the gods. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Peaches abounded; and a drink called metheglin, made of their juice mixed with whiskey and sweetened water, the thirsty traveller thought a rival to mint julep. A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett But after it was transferred to wooden "flackets" in Boston, these Friendship merrymakers contrived to "drinke it up under the name leackage" till but six gallons of the metheglin arrived at Plymouth. Customs and Fashions in Old New England The modern housewife may be aghast at the thought of more than a hundred ways of making mead and metheglin. The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened Meed is likewise lost by homophony with 1 mead = meadow and 2 mead = metheglin: and it is a very serious loss. Society for Pure English, Tract 03 (1920) A Few Practical Suggestions He loved old fashions; wore knee-breeches, and silver buckles in his shoes; brewed metheglin in his closet, and drank it from silver-pegged flagons; and kept diet bread on a salver to offer his visitors. The Morgesons He gives a receipt—the earliest I have seen in print—for making metheglin or hydromel. Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine Do you only take a cup of it now and then by yourself, and then come down to your parson, and boast of it, as if it was pure old metheglin? Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume I The seriousness of the business is tremendous; and to ignore the fine shades in the 106 receipts for mead and metheglin would have been a frivolity unknown in Digby's circle. The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened When they came father would take his mug, go up the ladder and return with it filled with metheglin. The Bark Covered House It comes from the Germans, who drank mead, or metheglin—a beverage made of honey—for thirty days after the wedding. Manners and Social Usages But I take it, that Ariel was fond of metheglin, of which the Bees are notorious Brewers. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 "If I had but a cup of metheglin," said Paul, stopping to perform the necessary operation of breathing, "I should swear this was the strongest meal that was ever placed before the mouth of man!" The Prairie The reason is, they say, the metheglin gets sour after that, and ain't palatable no more, and what is left of it is used for picklin' cucumbers, peppers, and nastertions, and what not. Nature and Human Nature I will make a barrel of metheglin, which will be a very delicious drink for my family and a kind of a substitute for the luxuries they left behind. The Bark Covered House He struck communities where the medium of exchange was still barter, and he found mountaineers drinking metheglin still as well as moonshine. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine There were acres of tobacco, and whole fields of locust for the manufacture of metheglin, and apple orchards from which cider enough to slack the thirst of the colony was made. The Heart's Highway Sir, your Muses have no such water, I assure you; your nectar, or the juice of your nepenthe, is nothing to it; 'tis above your metheglin, believe it. Cynthia's Revels For honey sells well, and we ourselves can make shift with a drop o’ small mead and metheglin for common use from the comb-washings.’ Wessex Tales When he got the barrel home, and ready to make his metheglin, he located it across two sticks about three feet long and six inches through. The Bark Covered House Mor ancients were wont to make themselves drun And at this day barbarous people who want wine drink metheglin, allaying the sweetness of the honey by bitter roots, much of the taste of our wine. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies Where metheglin was making he would linger round the tubs and vessels, begging a draught of what he called bee-wine. The Natural History of Selborne Cambria's old metheglin demon Breathed against our rushing tide; Clove us midst the threshing seamen:- Gashed, we saw our ranks divide! Poems — Volume 2 Of course, I wanted to make him believe that it was the contents of my stomach that was falling at his feet in place of the metheglin. The Bark Covered House He filled it with metheglin and said that the heat of the fire below, and warmth of the chimney above, would keep it from freezing. The Bark Covered House When I went to bed, at night, after that I gave the metheglin barrel a wide berth and a good letting alone, for I had lost my relish for metheglin. The Bark Covered House I grabbed for it, made some racket and some of the metheglin came out, guggle, guggle, good, good, and down it went to the chamber floor, which was made of loose boards. The Bark Covered House O my Bard! a yellow liquor, Like to that we drank of old - Gold is her metheglin beaker, She destruction drinks in gold. Poems — Volume 2 When lo! the first thing I heard from below was father, apparently very angry, shouting, "William! what in the world are you doing with the metheglin barrel?" The Bark Covered House He said he did not whip me so much for the metheglin, as for lying and trying to deceive him. The Bark Covered House He said he knew better, it was too sudden an attack, and too much of a shower of the metheglin falling at their feet. The Bark Covered House It may once in a while cause me to give a dry laugh, but never a sad tear since the night I spilt the metheglin. The Bark Covered House This formed one of the ingredients used in making the metheglin. The Bark Covered House But in order to make the metheglin, he must procure a barrel, and this he had to bring some distance on his back, as we had no team. The Bark Covered House |
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