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It was a hot day, and the brick wall was dappled with hanging foliage, and further out, opposite the windows of the "Stag and Hounds," where Steyning's ales could be obtained, the over-reaching sprays of a great chestnut tree fell in delicate tracery on the white dust.
It was enacted "for his good people's lawful recreation, after the end of Divine service, that his good people be not disturbed, or discouraged, from any lawful recreation, such as dancing for men and women, archery for men, leaping, vaulting, or any such harmless recreations; nor from having May games, Whitsun ales, and morris dances, and the setting up of May-poles, and other sports therewith used, so as the same be had in due and convenient time, without impediment or neglect of Divine service.
Ralph laughed thereat, and was merry and blithe with them; but the spearman, who was an old man, said: "For all Wat sayeth, lord, and his japes, ye must not misdeem of us that we shepherds of the Downs can do nought but run to ales and feasts, and that we are but pot-valiant: maybe thou thyself mayst live to see things go otherwise: and in that day may we have such as thee for captain.
Mellen's chair, that threatened to roll from under him each moment. "Now, Miss Clo, what is it you want of me? I'm on hand for a'most anything." "I knows you is, and ales wuz, Caleb; that's why I trusted yer wid de delicatest part ob dis entertainment. 'Member its premptory to de weddin'." "Preparatory, isn't that the correct word, Miss Clo?"
Binney, Morebath Acc'ts, 132. St. Tintinhull Acc'ts, Somer. Rec. Bristol and Glouc. Arch. Soc. Arch., loc. cit., supra. Stanford Acc'ts, loc. cit., s. a. 1595. Stratton Acc'ts, loc. cit., 198. Ales and collections thenceforward alternated here, until church rates were established. Marsh, History of Calne, 372. See, e.g., Thos. North, St.
At Stratton, Cornwall, up to 1547, at any rate, if not later, ales were the chief source of income. Archaeologia, xlvi, 195-6. Also St. Anthony's Gild ales at Chagford. Devon Ass. for Adv. of Science, viii, 74 . Various persons at Milton Abbot sold ale and bread. Op. cit., vol. xi , 218. The same year in these acc'ts we find three conduit wardens mentioned. Butcher, The Parish of Ashburton, 41.
The symphony began, and was soon afterwards followed by a faint kind of ventriloquial chirping, proceeding apparently from the deepest recesses of the interior of Miss Amelia Martin. ‘Sing out’—shouted one gentleman in a white great-coat. ‘Don’t be afraid to put the steam on, old gal,’ exclaimed another, ‘S-s-s-s-s-s-s’-went the five-and-twenty bottled ales. ‘Shame, shame!’ remonstrated the ornamental painter’s journeyman’s party—‘S-s-s-s’ went the bottled ales again, accompanied by all the gins, and a majority of the brandies.
And what is ales but sarpints, my Lady?" said Mrs. Fry throwing out her hands, "and what makes the man so friendly with sarpints, that he must come to save mun? We know, do you and I, my Lady, who is the old sarpint and the father of sarpints. And then what was he doing with that strange baste on his shoulder, my Lady?" "Why, it was only a tame squirrel," said Lady Eleanor.
Of Boiling Malt Liquors. Altho' I have said an Hour and a half is requisite for boiling October Beer, and an Hour for Ales and small Beer; yet it is to be observed, that an exact time is not altogether a certain Rule in this Case with some Brewers; for when loose Hops are boiled in the wort so long till they all sink, their Seeds will arise and fall down again; the wort also will be curdled, and broke into small Particles if examin'd in a Hand-bowl, but afterwards into larger, as big as great Pins heads, and will appear clean and fine at the Top.
Then he realized that his staring eyes had halted him automatically; and as they finally conveyed their information to his conscious mind, he perceived that he was standing directly in front of a saloon, and glaring at the sign upon the window: ALES WINES LIQUORS AND CIGARS
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