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Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse. Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse. Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. Vessels large may venture more, but little boats should keep the shore. Pride that shines on vanity sups on contempt. Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. What is a butterfly?
"Senor Samson, I am not in a humour now for going into accounts or explanations," said Sancho; "for there's a sinking of the stomach come over me, and unless I doctor it with a couple of sups of the old stuff it will put me on the thorn of Santa Lucia.
The man was a villain through and through. God grant he sups in hell to-night!" "Go on," said Ormskirk. But by this time he knew all that she had to tell. "Afterward he demanded money of her. He had letters, you understand mad, foolish letters, and these he offered to sell back to her at his own price. And their publicity meant ruin.
We have multiplied our daily seasons of refreshment, and eat and drink far oftener than our ancestors; but the truly genteel Briton never sups; the word is scarcely in his vocabulary, like Beau Brummel and the farthing "Fellow, I do not know the coin!" In a glossary of the tenth-eleventh century only two meals are quoted: undermeat = prandium, and even-meat = coena.
She opened her eyes with astonishment. "Supper is over this hour and more. "But I had none of it, good dame." "Is that my fault? You were welcome to your share for me." "But I was benighted, and a stranger; and belated sore against my will." "What have I to do with that? All the world knows 'The Star of the Forest' sups from six till eight.
Rachel's appetite had seemed sufficient for almost any food, but she confined her breakfast to two or three crackers of hard bread, and a few sups of coffee. The pleasantry had failed of its desired effect. It was like vinegar upon niter, or the singing of songs to an heavy heart.
The Queen dines and sups alone with very few attendants, and it is very seldom that anybody, foreigner or native, is admitted at that time, and then only at the intercession of somebody in power. Near this palace is the Queen's park, stocked with deer. Such parks are common throughout England, belonging to those that are distinguished either for their rank or riches.
He took the armchair at the head of the Monticello table with the simplicity of a child, and the bearing of a general who sups with his officers after a victorious field. The unfolding of the petal was not missed by his companions. Adam Gaudylock, with a glance, half shrewd and half affectionate, for the man whom he had known from boyhood, sank into the opposite seat with a light and happy laugh.
In different parts of the country in Cumberland and Cornwall, in Croyland Abbey, in Llangollen Churchyard, in Melton Mowbray are to be found lines more or less resembling the following: 'Man's life is like unto a winter's day, Some break their fast and so depart away, Others stay dinner then depart full fed, The longest age but sups and goes to bed.
Mistletoe and Holly," he repeated, as he strode to his cell. "The Reverend Father sups with the World, and indulges the Flesh. Methinks the Devil cannot be far off." Nor was he. He was very near. He had looked over the Chaplain's shoulder as he made his false obeisance in the doorway. But he liked not the pure white of the Knight's dress, and he feared the clear light in the Prelate's eyes.
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