He has insulted us all, for we have all been drinking election beer.
Nothing to do, eating anddrinking gratis--what more would you wish?
Under the trees, stretching away into the distance, were long rows of tables lit up by gaslights, and densely crowded with men drinking beer and talking noisily.
Rashly did he bask his soul in her delicious beauty, deliberately drinking deep of that intoxicating draught.
By the beginning of the eighteenth century, the members of some social clubs had developed complex toasting rituals which involved the inscription of the name of the lady to be honored on a drinking glass suitable for that purpose.
The teapot was, of course, the very center of the social custom of drinking tea; so, it usually was found in the center of the tray or table.
Tea drinking continued to be an important social custom in the new nation well into the 19th century.
Tea was the social beverage of the 18th century; serving it was a sign of politeness and hospitality, and drinking it was a custom with distinctive manners and specific equipment.
In the 18th century tea drinking was an established social custom with a recognized etiquette and distinctive equipage as we know from the pictures and writings of the period.
The afternoon gathering has divided into two groups, one playing cards, the otherdrinking tea.
To one side near the fireplace a man and two women drinking tea are seated at an ornately carved, square tea table with a matching stand for the hot water kettle.
Peter Kalm noted during his New York sojourn in 1749 that "when you paid a visit to any home" a bowl of cracked nuts and one of apples were "set before you, which you ate after drinking tea and even at times while partaking of tea.
Though the beverage was served in public pleasure gardens as well as coffee houses during the early 1700's in England, social tea drinking in the home was gradually coming into favor.
Thereafter, an increasing number of colonists abstained from tea drinking as a patriotic gesture.
For these reasons, social tea drinking was, understandably, a prestige custom.
The portrayal of the rotund silver teapot and other tea-drinking equipment in such an American painting as Susanna Truax (fig.
The early shipments of tea had included such appropriate vessels for the storage, brewing, and drinking of the herb as tea jars, teapots, and teacups.
Being invited to participate in a game of cards, he and several of his companions found their way into the back part of a saloon, where the day was spent in drinking and gambling.
While I was drinking and having a good time with my 'fast woman' three men were on the road to the farm where I had been working.
The physician was immediately sent for, and by the time he arrived, some thirty minutes, the dead man had called for a cup of water, and was in the act of drinking when the physician arrived.
As I was drinking from this cup of bliss it was suddenly dashed from my lips.
On New Year's Eve while New York is drinking itself into a drunken stupor, Philadelphia masks and disguises--and parades.
The Absinthe House is hardly less famed, but in these days when drinking has largely gone out of fashion and wormwood is under the particular ban of the United States statutes, it is largely a relic of the past.
In the middle of the ford we took the opportunity of letting the horses drink, and they stood drinking like the orphan lamb.
In the afternoon he was sitting up, drinking champagne and smoking cigarettes as cheery as possible, but he died in the night.
But the storm subsides, and soon they are all drinking and shouting.
In addition, she carries on the business of her husband, a good-for-nothing, who spends his time drinking in the society of persons of no consequence.
In Act IV what is left of the gang sits at the same old dingy table drinking and discussing, interminably discussing, the events of the past, and also Luka.
After the drinking has begun the trouble-breeding Hjördis weaves her spell of disaster.
If you was the drinking kind I'd say you'd been hitting up the red-eye.
She feeds every sense; and when I look in her eyes, Jack, I feel like the starved man on the desert, as I was saying, drinking that priceless water.
He dusted off the step, though, and sat down; and I told him that Cousin Eunice was drinking buttermilk in her kimono and wouldn't be in a mood to dress for another hour.
She had called her in there to get some fresh buttermilk, and Cousin Eunice was drinking glass after glass of it with such a rapt look on her face I knew she didn't realize that she couldn't get on her tight clothes till mid-afternoon.
It was some small consolation to remember that he had been drinking steadily for a week before that happened.
When the progress of their eating and drinkingcleared the way for confidential disclosures, Morphew began to hint at his scheme.
After eating without knowledge of the viands, and drinking a bottle of claret in like unconsciousness, he smoked for half an hour, his eyes vacantly set, his limbs lax and heavy, as though in the torpor of difficult digestion.
And in a very few moments Susan was sitting on the edge of Phil's bed, and both were drinkinghot chocolate and eating the party sponge cakes.
They had been confined but a few moments when the corporal returned, bringing a quantity of hardtack, a chunk of bacon, a pail of drinking water, two blankets and a small box of ointment.
While he wasdrinking he heard a slight creak and rustle, audible in the uproar by reason of its very lightness, and, looking around, he saw a woman standing on the top step of the cellar stairs, her hand on the door knob.
Keeps soldiers from drinking too much and getting into bad hands.
She was watching Binks as he stood beside her drinking his tea, and gave no sign of having heard his remark.
Bronze Cup used in China for Libations andDrinking 327 PLATE XVII.
Thus Achilles used a choice goblet ([Greek: depas]) for drinking wine and pouring libations to the gods.
This aqueduct formerly supplied Ilium with drinking water from the upper portion of the river.
They're that low that they expect me to waste my time getting food for 'em here, instead of drinking in the First Principles of the Grocery.
The Cliff House itself, half restaurant, half drinking saloon, fronting the ocean and the Seal Rock, where disporting seals were the chief object of interest, had its own peculiar symbol.
Jim could hear the church bells ringing; he knew it was Sunday--the day on which he was hustled from the main street by the constable; the day on which the shops were closed, and the drinking saloons open only at the back door.
But it is a greater glory to cut off the head of a Spaniard; and, after performing their dances and superstitions before it, they use the skull as a drinking vessel in their greatest feasts.
Salcedo was taken to the Franciscan convent, and immediately the conspirators celebrated the event with suppers and the drinking of toasts through the night, according to previous arrangements made by them.
The man and child without a word sank down upon the wooden benches and listened to the conversation of some men who were drinking in the tap-room.
Some cavaliers who had come from England since the restoration were drinking beer, while over the fire in the broad chimney bubbled a caldron hanging from an iron hook.
The question and the serious manner of its asking were incomprehensible to the girl, who laughed at the incongruity of the ideas suggested bydrinking wine on the one hand, and getting drunk on the other.
He objected to wine-drinking as offering an evil example.
That bucket down and fun of tears am I, Drinkingmy griefs, whilst you mount up on high.
The former was smoking a cigarette through a mouth-piece made by boring out the well-dried leg-bone of a chicken and was drinking nothing.
The wild mountaineers of the Sierra Nevada and Morena are, in their rude huts, poring over portions of the prohibited Book, and drinking in heresy from every line in its pages!
We Britons must of course express some of our emotions by eating and drinking freely.
Meet a group of tramping gentlemen who have been beer-drinking at noon; they are surprisingly vivacious until the gaze of the sun becomes importunate; they even sing as they go, and their hearty laughter resounds far and near.
So the drinking is begun again, and the men have none of the delicacy and steadiness of hand that are needed.
Moreover, I believe that if everybody had definite knowledge of the wide ruin which is being wrought by drink there would be a general movement which would end in the gradual disappearance of drinking habits.
He begins by timidly drinking a little of the deleterious stuff, and he finds that his mental images grow bright and pleasant.
