But since everybody insisted upon it, she would very willingly toast them in another bumper of aromatic spirits of ammonia.

Mr. Pelham's Rockwood Tickler and Bumper were names well known in Yorkshire, and Lord Ludlow's Powerful and Growler were talked of both in Lincolnshire and Warwickshire.

"I suppose you know why I am come hither?" observed the major, smacking his lips after his second bumper.

The consequence was, that I soon felt greatly excited; and eventually so much so, that I not only readily swallowed bumper after bumper, but, when our bottle was done, insisted on another being brought in; forgetting everything but my debt of gratitude to Mr. Lancaster, and losing sight, for the moment at any rate, of all my obligations, in the delight with which I listened to his entertaining conversation.

The consequence was, that I soon felt greatly excited; and eventually so much so, that I not only readily swallowed bumper after bumper, but, when our bottle was done, insisted on another being brought in; forgetting everything but my debt of gratitude to Mr. Lancaster, and losing sight, for the moment at any rate, of all my obligations, in the delight with which I listened to his entertaining conversation.

Do you well apprehend the idea?" While the Alsatian diluted his glass of Aqua fortis, shook into it an infusion of bitters, and tossed off the bumper with apparent relish, I had time to look around the strange apartment.

"'And then came the speeches; Lord Hunter was fine Lord Wood, finer stillLord Thompson, divine, The sheriffs were Ciceros a-piece; Lord Crowther was sick, though he managed to eat What, if races were feasts, would have won him the plate; But he tossed off a bumper to Greece.

While every planter had his fat years and lean, and the yield of the belt as a whole alternated between bumper crops and short ones, the industry was in general of such profit as to maintain a continued expansion of its area and a never ending though sometimes hesitating increase of its product.

It was now, however, near the witching hour of night, or we might say of night's black arch, the key stane; and many from the lower parts of the hall had crowded up to the top; so that regularity of speech, or bumper, or song, there could be none.

In many parts of England any thing large is called a bumper.

At the first masquerade which the King attended in this country, an unknown lady, in a domino, invited him to drink a glass of wine at one of the side-tables; he readily assented, and the lady filling a bumper, said, "Here, mask, the Pretender's health.

Not until he had consumed the last morsel of these provisions and eke a bumper of milk did the woman lead him back to that shaded porch where he had lately been put to the torture.

This of course acted as a great stimulant, and we had a bumper meeting on Friday.

Thanks to Mr. Knightpush the bottlehere's to his health in a bumper.

The Bumper book.

Bumper crops in the desert.

Next on friends lost in battle they mournfully dwelt 'Twas a theme that together the heart and eye felt, And a bumper to valor they gave; While the liquor that flow'd in the bless'd circling bowl Was enrich'd by a tribute that flow'd from the soul, "A tear for the tomb of the brave!" SONNET.

This is the granary of the land where the farmer who bears the burdens of the Stateand who, therefore, ascribes last year's bumper crop to the direct action of the McKinley Billhas, also, to bear the ghastly monotony of earth and sky.

Then, as he left them again, she said, "Thou canst not; it is a message no one can deliver but me," and as if to seal her words she poured down a good, round bumper.

The moment quickly came when he wanted his eleventh bumper.

His Majesty's good ship Prince William; and, in order that all reserve may be at an end between us, I propose a bumper to the health and prosperity of the wanderer returned.

and what may the news be?" "Fill a bumper for yourself, and I'll give you a toast.

They gave me a cup, and, for the ladies, I brought each a bumper of the cool, trickling flood.

Later the term came to be applied to the lady in whose honor the company drank, her name serving to flavor the bumper as the toast flavored the drink.

One day the Laird of Combie, who piqued himself on his bon-mots, was, as frequently happened, a guest of Miss MacNabb's, and after dinner several toasts had gone round as usual, Combie rose with great solemnity and addressing the lady of the house requested an especial bumper, insisting on all the guests to fill to the brim.