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If, however, while sitting at meat he at any time decline the proffered bowl of mead or wine, it will very likely be offered to any elderly serf who may be standing by, though clothed in rags; nor would any guest at the feast disdain to add to the gift a portion from his own dish of meat or pastry.
She had a great bunch of keys dangling at her girdle, and her tablets were in her hands, where from time to time she jotted down some brief note to be entered later in those household books which she kept herself with scrupulous care, so that every season she knew exactly how many gallons or hogsheads of mead or wine had been brewed, what had been the yield of every crop in the garden or meadow, what stores of conserves had been made from each fruit as its season came in, and whether that quantity had proved sufficient for the year's consumption.
Lloyd George is her pet hero, now that Kitchener is gone. "'I stand behind Lloyd George every time, retorted Susan. "'I suppose that will hearten him up greatly, said Warren Mead, with one of his disagreeable 'haw-haws. "Warren's remark was spark to powder. Susan just 'sailed in' as she puts it, and 'said her say. She said it remarkably well, too.
I guess it won't hurt any to let the tots see the bird." Mr. Mead opened a sort of little cupboard under the back seat of his auto, and brought out a parrot's cage. In it was a green bird, which, as soon as it came out into the sunlight, began preening its feathers and moving about, climbing up on the wires, partly by its claw feet and partly by its strong beak. "Polly wants a cracker!
But in obedience to the spirit of temperance that ruled in the village, and was so rigid in its exactions, that it kept Captain Jack Laythe, the man who dozed in the chair, a spy over his counter, he could give them nothing but cider and mead.
'I ask, because we've got a cottage vacant in the mead. Old Dobson, who was with General Wolfe at the taking of Quebec, died a fortnight ago. With such injuries as yours, I fear you'll never be able to work again. But we require strict testimonials as to character, he added, with as penetrating a look as he could summon up at Philip.
He forces pledges, favors none of the land of Danes, but lustily murders, fights and feasts, nor feud he dreads from Spear-Dane men. But speedily now shall I prove him the prowess and pride of the Geats, shall bid him battle. Blithe to mead go he that listeth, when light of dawn this morrow morning o'er men of earth, ether-robed sun from the south shall beam!"
P. Du Bois, The Culture of Justice, chaps. iii, x. Dodd, Mead & Co., $0.75. E.P. St. John, Child Nature and Child Nurture, chap. viii. Pilgrim Press, $0.50. W.L. Sheldon, A Study of Habits, chap. xvii. Welch & Co., Chicago, $1.25. II. Further Reading Sneath & Hodges, Moral Training in School and Home. Macmillan, $0.80. E.O. Sisson, The Essentials of Character. Macmillan, $1.00.
They have no wine, as I have said before, instead of which they drink mead, made of honey and water, which is very pleasant when sufficiently kept. It is not allowed to every one to make this liquor, for which purpose a license or permission must be had from the grand duke; for if every person had liberty to make mead, they would drink perpetually like so many beasts, and would kill one another.
Dombrowski? from the Italian land?” until finally all at once, as if thought had fused with thought and word with word, all cried with one voice, as if a signal had been given: “Dombrowski!” All shouted together, all embraced one another; the peasant and the Tatar count, the prince’s hat and the cross, the white rose, the griffin, and the ship; they forgot everything, even the Bernardine; they only sang and shouted: “Brandy, mead, wine!”
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