flagon

How To Use flagon In A Sentence

• I've got a flagon of grog hanging from my neck, a pocket full of fascinating promotional cards with ladies' telephone numbers on them and the bold, brave spring of the tiger that quickens my walk.
• Oliver eagerly accepted it, raised it to his head with a trembling hand, imbibed the contents with lips which quivered with emotion, and, though the potation was as thin as he had requested, so much was he exhausted with the combined fears of alarm and of former revelry, that, when he placed the flagon on the oak table, he uttered a deep sigh of satisfaction, and remained silent. The Fair Maid of Perth
• 'There were several flagons set out in the butlery,' he said. The Falcons of Montabard
• The "gude" man of the house was spending the evening with a neighbour; but poached eggs and a rasher of bacon, accompanied with a flagon of sparkling ale, gave our guest no occasion to doubt the hospitality of the house, on account of the absence of its master. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
• Simple shapes such as plates and spoons could be cast in a two-part mould, but complex forms such as tankards or flagons needed multi-part moulds.
• Dusk slowly came and still the walls of the pub echoed with laughter and the sound of clinking flagons and plates.
• The flagon is the only piece of the church plate belonging to this period. The Evolution of an English Town
• The “lagena,” or “lagona,” was a long-necked bottle or flagon, made of earth, and much used for keeping wine or fruit.] [Footnote I. 27: _The foreign bird_) -- Ver. The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes
• One produced a half gallon flagon of Johnnie Walker Red Label and six little cups.
• Khalif, followed by cup-bearer lads like moons, belted with zones of gold, who spread a cloth of siglaton301 and set thereon flagons of chinaware and tall flasks of glass and cups of crystal and bottles and hanaps302 of all colours; and those flagons they filled with pure clear and old wine, whose scent was as the fragrance of virgin musk and it was even as saith the poet, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night