We got him in our stateroom on the boat, and took his clothes away from him, 'cause he only wears his clothes when he is being dined and wined, and we chained him in the upper berth.

" While he was thus being wined, and dined, and praised by those who were interested in his scientific achievements, he harked back for a few hours to memories of his student days in London, for his old friend and room-mate, Charles R. Leslie, now a prosperous and successful painter, gave him a cordial invitation to visit him at Petworth, near London.

It has always seemed strange to me, that though mankind hate metaphysics, they are all natural metaphysicians, especially when a little wined.

The gossips of had long set it down as a match, but were, it seems, doomed to be disappointed of their cake and wine.

'That you shall do in a minute,' says he; so he whipped one of them out with a landing-net; and when I stuck my knife into him, the pickle ran out of his body like wine out of a claret-bottle, and I ate at least two pounds of the rascal, while he flapped his tail in my face.

There is good wine at Choisy, I am going there to get some.

This wine is diminishing, although it is in a sealed jug.

The poor scullion did his office with what grace he might, but no one, it is said, would touch the wine until it came to the turn of the Earl of Howth, the one Irish peer, as we have seen, who had declined to accept the impostor in his heyday of success.

"Nay, but bring me the cup if the wine be good," quoth he, being a merry gentleman, "and I shall drink it both for its sake and mine own, and for thee also as thou art, so I leave thee, a poor innocent!

Sussex made another attempt not long after to poison him in a gift of wine, which all but killed him and his entire household, which still included the unhappy "Countess" and her yet more unhappy husband Calvagh O'Donnell, whom Shane kept securely ironed in a cell at the bottom of his castle.

He was equally pleased with the settlement at the mouth of the Muskingum; and he was speedily on good terms with the officers of the fort, who dined and wined him to his heart's content.

The garrison of Fort St. Philip waited in vain for the return of the squadron; left to its own devices, it nevertheless held out; the fortifications seemed to be impregnable; the siege-works proceeded slowly; the soldiers were disgusted, and began to indulge to excess in the wine of Spain.

On our way to the hotel, I was set upon by a crowd of roughs who had been dined and wined by said W, and who threatened to lynch me.

And the vat full of wine.

After that, another glass of red wine is poured on the log.

Later in the evening the master of the house pours a glass of wine on the charred end of the log, whereupon one of the younger men takes the burnt piece of wood, carries it to the orchard, and sets it up against one of the fruit-trees.

Then he and all present bare their heads, sprinkle the log with wine, and make a cross on it.

In Montenegro they meet the log with a loaf of bread and a jug of wine, drink to it, and pour wine on it, whereupon the whole family drinks out of the same beaker.

In Albania down to recent years it was a common custom to burn a Yule log at Christmas, and with it corn, maize, and beans; moreover, wine and rakia were poured on the flames, and the ashes of the fire were scattered on the fields to make them fertile.

Whenever, too, trips were made to Williamsburg, Annapolis, Philadelphia, or elsewhere, it was a rare occurrence when the various stages of the journey were not spent with friends, and in those cities he was dined and wined to a surfeit.

Accompanied by his wife, he was motored and wined and dined through the conquered country under the watchful chaperonage of German officers.

He had oncesour wine and slept in the secret chamber at Wolf's Crag.

Goethe s translators to (with) carriers who convey good wine to market, though it gets unaccountably watered by the way.

PLENTY is now in good use as a noun only, as "Plenty of corn and wine."

I think, however, that the grape-vines bore better that year than ever beforethus watered, or wined, I mean.