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Updated: May 28, 2025
It was when he was thus sconced that Johnson made that reply which Boswell preserves "as a specimen of the antithetical character of his wit" "Sir, you have sconced me twopence for non-attendance on a lecture not worth a penny." Sconcing seems to have been the penalty for offences very various in degree.
Herbert," said another, a small man with a squeaking voice, whose rags of clothes hardly hung on to his body, "warn't I here with the other boys the last Friday as iver was? Ax Pat Condon else, yer honer; and yet when they comed to give out the wages, they sconced me of ." And so on. There were as many complaints to be made as there were men, if only he could bring himself to listen to them.
They had promised to take me with them to see bell-ringing in the tower. All the young men of the village meet, and draw lots in the Stube of the Rathhaus. One party tolls the old year out; the other rings the new year in. He who comes last is sconced three litres of Veltliner for the company. This jovial fine was ours to pay to-night.
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