How To Use Flagon In A Sentence
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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.
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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
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'There were several flagons set out in the butlery,' he said.
The Falcons of Montabard
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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
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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.
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Dusk slowly came and still the walls of the pub echoed with laughter and the sound of clinking flagons and plates.
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The flagon is the only piece of the church plate belonging to this period.
The Evolution of an English Town
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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
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One produced a half gallon flagon of Johnnie Walker Red Label and six little cups.
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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
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All of the 120 or more silver bowls, dishes, cups, flagons and spoons were cut up, crushed, or broken.
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A large flagon contained grog, the drink consumed by every person on board.
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Still, a couple of flagons of Merlot soothed her somewhat.
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That leaves me enough gold left over for a flagon of cheap wine, a belly full of hot mutton and a roll or two with a lusty wench!
Archive 2009-03-01
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A grisaille snuffbox - you know it, Luc - and a perfume flagon with a gold collar.
ON A WICKED DAWN
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By what right do you drink from my flagon of life?
Herman Melville's Homoerotic Side Highlighted In New Book
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He drank deeply from his flagon, set it down once more.
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So he ate and drank and made merry and took his pleasure and gave gifts of gear and coin and was profuse with gold and addrest himself up to eating fowls and breaking the seals of wine-flasks and listening to the giggle of the daughter of the vine, as she gurgled from the flagon and enjoying the jingle of the singing-girls; nor did he give over this way of life, till his wealth was wasted and the case worsened and all his goods went from him and he bit his hands284 in bitter penitence.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Nothing daunted, the bearers of comfort brought a flagon of ale and a long clay pipe.
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Some of his flagons, tankards, plates, saucers, salts, basins, and chamber pots, although unspecified as to material, were undoubtedly also made of pewter.
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Time to polish off this flagon of ale ... hic ... there's virgins in distress, and in need of rescuing …
Archive 2009-10-01
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The autumn ramble: the woods, the dog, the gun, the Hudson, the stranger, the "ninepins" company, the flagon, the waking -- the changed scenes.
Elson Grammar School Literature v4
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This flagon, such as we call a 'tappit hen' in my country, but far greater, I bore with me up the cellar stairs, and gave it to one of the guard, bidding him spill not a drop, or he should go thirsty.
A Monk of Fife
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As an actor, no, I cannot do without the words of a writer (or a flagon of booze to keep me going each day).
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Mountains of grapes dwindled; empty flagons accumulated on the floor.
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He bought a pitcher of the spiced, potent mead sold in these parts, and asked for a pair of clean flagons.
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He said it as he picked up a flagon and put it under the spout of a wine barrel.
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Presently they brought the tray of wine which friends doth conjoin and clarified draughts in flagons of gold and crystal and silver, and the host smote with a rattan-wand on the door of an inner chamber, whereupon behold, it opened and out came three damsels, high-bosomed virginity with faces like the sun at the fourth hour of the day, one a lutist, another a harpist and the third a dancer-artiste.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Dallandra clutched the flagon to her chest to keep it from spilling as the cage made its jerky way back up.
A TIME OF WAR
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Since he is not drinking himself and the flagon is half-empty, it is not likely to be her first glassful.
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Figures and devices were painted and displayed on saddles, bridles, and collars, on censers, on goblets and cups, and flagons, on dishes and ewers, in tents, on curtains and on chairs, and upon all articles and utensils.
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It has long been known that water carried in silver flagons stays fresh.
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It is a humble beverage that unites the generations, a common bond that links today's thirsty men and women with those from centuries ago swigged down in tankards and flagons after a hard day in the fields.
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Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal 2010 Domaines Ott Château de Selle Rosé 2010 Domaines Ott Château de Selle Rosé, $40 This wine is reliably remembered by just about anyone who's ever had it—in large part because of its distinctive bottle, which is shaped a bit like a large perfume flagon.
Drink, Memory: How to Remember That Wine
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The sheavers brought a flagon of cider and they all took a rest in the shade of the binder.
THE MAIN CAGES
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Consider it your reward for dealing with Old Martin at the gatehouse,’ he said, pushing the flagon a bit closer.
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The body of this flagon, originally one of a pair is embossed with flowers and leaves populated by a leaping unicorn and a wild boar with its young.
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Picking up the second flagon, he hurled it towards the door.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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A serving wench brought us flagons of watered beer.
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This Triumph, was drawne by sixe lasciuious Centaures, which came of the fallen seede of the sausy and presumpteous _Ixion_: with a furniture of gold vpon them, and a long their strong sides, like horses, excellently framed and illaqueated in manner of a flagon chayne, whereby they drewe the Tryumph; such as _Ericthonius_ neuer inuented, for swiftnesse.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
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The man had not touched the flagon, but was staring at him thoughtfully.
TREASON KEEP
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Can I interest you in an afternoon of spirited questing followed by a flagon of ale at Yon Virtual Tavern?Yeah, sure, why not?
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‘Hell no,’ Percy agreed as he passed out fresh flagons.
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An 1879 claret jug can be seen as a pared-down variant of an 1862 gothic silver and glass flagon designed by William Butterfield.
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He took a seat next to his king, taking a flagon from a servant and drinking deeply.
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Inside he found the Upright Man sitting at a table, a half-drunk flagon of water next to him.
SHARDS OF A BROKEN CROWN
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Iain describes the scene: the bright, hot estate, the straw hats, the flagons filling while Mestre Alabaça watches his art going forth, not the Mouchão or the Dom Rafael but the traditional pressings, vino currente, the current wine.
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She bent down and picked up a second flagon, then started to drink it.
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According to English inventories, the term flagon refers to a tall, pear-shaped vessel with a narrow neck and chain.
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Dr. Johnson, however, strangely enough deduces the word bumpkin from bump; but what if it should prove to be a corruption of bumbard, or bombard: in low Latin, bombardus, a great gun, and from thence applied to a large flagon, or full glass.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 387, August 28, 1829
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As Hunter drew closer, he noticed the several flagons sitting on the table between them were mostly empty.
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Emulously they renew the feast, and, glad at the high omen, array the flagons and engarland the wine.
The Aeneid of Virgil
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Together they returned their flagons to the bar as he gave them one last look.
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Even when, later still, the general's eager hand, stretching forth for the dusky flagon (it was sacrilege to sweep away those insignia of age and respectability), managed to capsize the candelabrum and sent the fluid "adamantine" spattering a treasured table-cloth (how quick the dash of the young trooper's hand upon the flame -- and its extinction!), a gentle smile was the sole rebuke, followed by a "Thank you, Mr. Harris.
Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War
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We have indeed reached some significant milestones around here of late, and it's high time we celebrated with a flagon of ale, a buxom wench or two, and our very first CONTEST on CROM!
Archive 2010-03-01
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Inside were all of the perishable food items along with a flagon of milk.
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After that came the famous Valenti pork shank, an imposing haunch of meat, braised in whole flagons of wine, supported by garden vegetables and a mound of polenta.
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flagon," but a "cake," a confection, as the Septuagint renders it, made of flour and honey.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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He returned a minute later with a tray and four flagons.
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He plucked a flagon from the tray of a passing serving boy.
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She sits out front under a tattered awning all day in school holidays, watching people, drinking from a two litre flagon of sherry.
Clovers in her hair
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The bottle, once a flagon of fulfillable fantasy, once the repository of ambition and purpose, was falling into the category of galloping mind-fuck-and a woman really didn't need more than one -perfect taco" in her life.
La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
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He then disappeared, and presently entered with two earthen flagons, one filled with canary wine, the other with brandy.
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When I went on board ship with the Bailo Jean Dona, I found another case given to me by him, containing two quintals of the best Mocha coffee, one hundred pounds of tobacco leaves, two large flagons filled, one with Zabandi tobacco, the other with camussa, and a magnificent pipe tube of jessamine wood, covered with gold filigrane, which I sold in Corfu for one hundred sequins.
The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
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I had no guess; and I seized on the idea of that mystic shoe-horn with delight, even as, a little later, I should have written flagon, chalice, hanaper, beaker, or any word that might have appealed to me at the moment as least contaminate with mean associations.
Essays of Travel
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He stood and began pouring from a tall earthenware flagon, filling tankards with ale.
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In pre-filled flagons, they had Parrot & Jigger's two Katipo Pale Ales - go for their stronger Pale Ale as it's still easy to drink and more hoppy, herbaceous and spicy in the flavour.
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Each monk is allowed daily a pound of bread and pulse, and, according to the Italian custom, half a flagon (_hemina_) of wine; though he is advised to abstain from the wine, if he can do so without injury to his health.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864
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He pulled another long drink from his flagon.
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Where, among the wooden fowls and "impracticable" flagons, were to be seen very imposing pasties and flasks of champaigne, littered together in most admirable disorder.
The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete
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It was nice to sup a flagon of nut-brown ale in a pub that people with ruffs used to drink in.
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And on the morow we sent him a flagon of Muscadel wine (which had lasted very wel in so long a iourney) and a boxe full of bisket, which was most acceptable vnto him and he kept our seruants with him for that euening.
The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.
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After that came the famous Valenti pork shank, an imposing haunch of meat, braised in whole flagons of wine, supported by garden vegetables and a mound of polenta.
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While the travellers, saddle-sore from a long journey north, cross the drawbridge, the kitchen should be turning a hog on a spit and ladling out flagons of mead in celebration of a safe return.
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Despite this, some early pewter survives, including the flagons shown in Plates II and IV.
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The sheavers brought a flagon of cider and they all took a rest in the shade of the binder.
THE MAIN CAGES
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Only when she reached the end of the long avenue and circled around among the squat black tents of the humbler folk did she succumb at last to temptation in the shape of a goblinesque little maiden with thick blonde braids and a pert scarlet hennin, who offered flagons of carved myrtlewood filled with a marvelous perfume distilled from forest flowers.
The Golden Torc
