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Updated: July 5, 2025
He saw that phantom crew, when not working, at wassail and festivity; heard the shouts of drunken roisterers; saw the placing of a guard around some of the most uncontrollable, and later detected the stealthy escape of half a dozen sailors inland, amidst the fruitless volley fired upon them from obsolete blunderbusses.
"I must not," answered the Master of Ravenswood, "challenge the freedom of speech in which I have set example. What, to speak without a metaphor, do you call this monstrous passion which you charge me with fostering?" "Revenge, my good sir revenge; which, if it be as gentle manlike a sin as wine and wassail, with their et coeteras, is equally unchristian, and not so bloodless.
The two musty musketeers were awaiting him hard by the ruined château that is to say, on a park bench with rickety cast-iron legs. His honor was at stake. He had engaged to storm the castle single-handed and bring back the treasure that was to furnish them wassail and solace. And all that stood between him and the coveted dollar was his wife, once a little girl whom he could aha! why not again?
Some of the carols degenerated into songs about the wassail bowl, and the virtues of strong ale, and our forefathers were not unlike some of their children, who forget the Saviour in the enjoyment of His gifts.
the doctor sang, and Phebe joined his song, "'Where for eternity unite The joys of wassail ad the fight," for the stirring ballad was a favorite with them both. Mac levelled his fork at them accusingly. "You mustn't sing at ve table. It's horrid to sing at ve table." "I beg your pardon, Mac," said his grandfather meekly. Outside their windows, the sun was glowing over the steel blue sea.
Besides his black and his brown, he had a green velveteen coat, and a different-colored flowing tie for every day in the week. His habits were in complete conformity with his philosophy of extremes. He was apt to tell me when he had been sitting up all night, whether in study or what he called wassail; but I could always guess the fact from his appearance.
Even old Christy, who had got on a new dress, from top to toe, and shone in all the splendour of bright leather breeches, and an enormous wedding favour in his cap, forgot his usual crustiness, became inspired by wine and wassail, and absolutely danced a hornpipe on one of the tables, with all the grace and agility of a mannikin hung upon wires.
She has built a doorless, windowless wall between them, and sees the husband of her youth no more. Outside her heart that is the night in which he wanders, while the palace-windows are flaring, and the low wind throbs to the wassail shouts: within, his murderer sits by the wife of his bosom, and in the orchard the spilt poison is yet gnawing at the roots of the daisies.
Gay sport have we had to-night with Faul and Zabulus ; but gayer far shall our sport be in the wassail hall of Senlac, when thy grandchild shall come in the torchlight to the bridal bed of her lord.
Long had the smouldering fire of discord glowed between the tyrant father and his savage son long had I nursed, in secret, the unnatural hatred it blazed forth in an hour of drunken wassail, and at his own board fell my oppressor by the hand of his own son such are the secrets these vaults conceal!
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