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But when, as the custom was, the people of the house came in one by one, and drank the healths of their master and mistress, he grew paler and paler and whiter and whiter, as if his blood were being sucked out of him and drained away. "The earth draws!" he shrieked, and there was a look of horror in his eyes. Immediately afterwards he sat there dead!
Customs at and after meals Quakers never drink healths at dinner nor toasts after dinner the drinking of toasts a heathen custom interrupts often the innocence and leads to the intoxication of the company anecdote of Judge Hale Quakers sometimes in embarrassing situations on account of this omission Quaker-women seldom retire after dinner, and leave the men drinking Quakers a sober people.
Three hundred guests sat down, upon the 8th of April, to this luxurious banquet, which was destined to become historical. The board glittered with silver and gold. The wine circulated with more than its usual rapidity among the band of noble Bacchanals, who were never weary of drinking the healths of Brederode, of Orange, and of Egmont.
"Troth, man," replied Dolan, "beggin' your pardon, I'll dhrink first healths apiece, your sowl; success boys glory to ourselves, and confusion to the Scanlon boys, any way." "And maybe," observed Connell, "'tis we that didn't lick them well in the last fair they're not able to meet the Findramore birds even on their own walk." "Well, boys," said Delany, "about the masther?
The humane, and we dare say, brave Capt. Beresford, has the homage of respect for his proper line of conduct towards those Americans whom the fortune of war put under his command. We drank the healths, in the best beer we could get, of the captain, officers and crew, of his Britannic Majesty's line of battle ship, Poictiers.
They gave Joe Basalt a good stiff tumbler of grog and where is the sailor who could resist that? and oh, wickedness! the grog was hocussed. In plainer language, that means drugged. Not very long after drinking their healths in a bumper, old Joe felt drowsy, and he fell asleep.
It was not till all was over, and our healths drunk, that he told us James was in that city, whither he had preceded us some days, and where he now lay sick, and like to die. I thought I saw by my wife's face what way her inclination pointed. "And let us go see him, then," said I. "If it is your pleasure," said Catriona. These were early days.
Minnie's and Mabel's healths were drunk with much enthusiasm, as the original inaugurators of the good work, and then the health of all the young ladies together, which was responded to on their behalf by Mr.
But the absence of Sir Geoffrey gave the rein to some disorders, which, if present, he would assuredly have restrained. Some of the minister's books were torn and flung about as treasonable and seditious trash, by the zealous parish-officers or their assistants. A quantity of his ale was drunk up in healths to the King and Peveril of the Peak.
There are healths to be drunk this day when we assemble under the Hamilton maple, and first and most loyally the health of our American Consul at Breslau, Germany!" If the summer months had brought many changes to the dwellers in the Yellow House and the House of Lords, the autumn was responsible for many more.
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