Other company were there: two playing cards, two playing dominoes, three standing by the counter lengthening out a short supply of wine. As he passed behind the counter, he took notice that the elderly gentleman said in a look to the young lady, "This is our man."
"It is not often," said the second of the three, addressing Monsieur Defarge, "that many of these miserable beasts know the taste of wine, or of anything but black bread and death.
The red wine was poured in tumblers for all, and the long dining-room was partly cleared for dancing.
When our Italian hosts had offered me wine in a general sort of way, I had declined.
Thereupon Dummling asked to have her for his wife; but the king did not like the son-in- law, and made all manner of excuses and said he must first produce a man who could drink a cellarful of
wine. Dummling thought of the little grey man, who could certainly help him; so he went into the forest, and in the same place where he had felled the tree, he saw a man sitting, who had a very sorrowful face.
Now an Englishman is an enemy; this port wine belongs to the English, therefore it belongs to us."
"'Tis a very expensive wine," said Blaisois, shaking his head.
"'Look here, Cyclops,' said I, you have been eating a great deal of man's flesh, so take this and drink some
wine, that you may see what kind of liquor we had on board my ship.
Moreover, he avowed his perfect willingness to swallow as much
wine as desired.
Pere Pamphile, more
wine!" and Caderousse rattled his glass upon the table.
She was one of the stupid lowly, she and her people before her--the ones that did the work, drove their oxen across the Plains, cleared and broke the virgin land, toiled all days and all hours, paid their taxes, and sent their sons and grandsons out to fight and die for the flag that gave them such ample protection that they were able to sell their
wine for twenty-two cents.
Pickwick, he applied himself with great interest to the port
wine and dessert, which had just been placed on the table.
There is our
wine in bottles, and our
wine in casks; the beer, the oil, and the spices, the bacon, and sausages.
drink three cups of
wine, the "Golden Valley" being the name of a garden, the owner of which enforced this penalty among his boon companions (`Gems of Chinese Literature', p.
To Pierre all men seemed like those soldiers, seeking refuge from life: some in ambition, some in cards, some in framing laws, some in women, some in toys, some in horses, some in politics, some in sport, some in
wine, and some in governmental affairs.