beer-horn

Updated: July 24, 2025

Then he broke with Richard altogether; and then came Gilles de Gurdun with secret words and offers. The Archduke drained his beer-horn, and with his big hand wrung his beard dry. He winked hard at Gilles, whom he thought to be a hired assassin of deplorable address sent, probably, by Count John. 'Are you angry enough to do what you propose? he asked him. 'I am not, let me tell you.

Maurice Henry Hewlett - The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay