"Berm-dumplin'," was as satisfying as anything that she could get, and it would "stick to their ribs" better than "ony mak o' swill;" besides, the children liked it.

"A thousand times," exclaimed he, "a thousand and a thousand times of greater value, as being more innocent than all our modern taverns, were those baths of ages past, whither the people went, not shamefully to squander their fortunes and expose their lives by swilling themselves with wine, but assembling there for the decent and economical amusement of drinking warm water.

He munches now the steaming grains, Now with full swill the liquor drains.

revel; rake, live hard, run riot, sow one's wild oats; slake one's appetite, slake one's thirst; swill; pamper.

[Fr.], guzzle, swill [Slang], soak [Slang], sot, bum [U.S.], besot, have a jag on, have a buzz on, lush [Slang], bib, swig, carouse; sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus^; take to drinking; drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish; have one's swill [Slang], drain the cup, splice the main brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you.

[Fr.], guzzle, swill [Slang], soak [Slang], sot, bum [U.S.], besot, have a jag on, have a buzz on, lush [Slang], bib, swig, carouse; sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus^; take to drinking; drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish; have one's swill [Slang], drain the cup, splice the main brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you.

Why true, true, that we know and those swilling bowels.

"and, swilling those bowels [bowls], Death did," &c.? Old ed.

Even peace, they say, may be bought too dear, and what shall it profit a people if it gain a swill-tub of comforts and lose its own soul?

I put five pounds into the preliminary pool and promised them all my pig-swill.

I could have wept when I thought how my purse and my swill-tub had been emptied to keep such puny monstrosities in the land of the living.

That's not counting several tons of swill that ought to be inside him but aren't.

I paid my weekly cheque without being asked; without a murmur I parted daily with my swill; in fact I comported myself as though the unholy plot maturing in my breast was nonexistent.

But now at last wine fails; and if of yore Up-piled upon the cellar-floor, Cask rose on cask, a goodly store, From the best slopes and vintage; now The swilling of our lords, I trow, Unceasing, drains the very lees.

"WHY HAVE YOU BROUGHT THE SWILL BACK?" Land Girl.

"If I'd a make-up box and a false mustache 'ere, I'd act so as to cheat the French President 'imself, much less a parcel of beer-swilling Germs.

'Wot bisness?' "'There's some people as might like to know that you leave the wharf to look arter itself while you're sitting in a pub swilling gallons and gallons o' beer,' he ses, in a nasty sort o' way.

When at the fountain's head, as merit ought To claim the place, you take a swilling draught, How easy 'tis an envious eye to throw, And tax the sheep for troubling streams below; Or call her (when no farther cause you find) An enemy possess'd of all your kind!

I would be brisk in swilling Bumpers, upon this Maxim, That it is better to trouble others with my Impertinence, than to be troubled my self with theirs.

before you're all done swilling," said Brigson, "I've got a health; 'Confound muffs and masters, and success to the anti's.'

For indeed the inns of Germany, and especially of the North, were not at that time such as wise and learned men could readily submit toneither abide in, to be herded with dull, landward peasants and all the tankard-swilling gutter-knaves of the town.

Seizing a favorable opportunity, Captain Hall stated his wish to have an interview with their chief, upon which a message was sent to him; but he did not think fit to show himself for a considerable time, during which they remained with the party round the tub, who continued swilling their wine like so many hogs.

A more tragic note is struck in the speech in which Claius retorts on Pilumnus after his discovery: I, glut your hate, Pilumnus; let your soule That has so long thirsted to drinke my blood, Swill till my veines are empty;...

he yelled; "am I to stand around here awaiting your pleasure while you swill your skin full?" I wiped my lips with my torn hands, and got to my feet painfully, a trifle dizzy for a moment, but perfectly able to stand and to comprehend.

A reckless, mutton-munching, beer-swilling animal!