How To Use Wassail In A Sentence
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If the macaronic inclusion of ecclesiastical Latin is too sober for your holiday, you can always set the Wayback Machine to last year's wassails.
Archive 2008-12-01
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Forms of worship will be exempt under the law but, together with traditional forms of music like wassailing, music events held in churches will not.
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There is something barbaric, I suppose, in the British customs still -- something that reminds one of their ancient condition when the Romans conquered them -- when their supreme idea of enjoyment was to have an ox roasted whole before them while they drank "wassail" till they groveled under their own tables in a worse condition than overfed swine.
Vendetta: a story of one forgotten
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Glögg is similar to a variety of historical mulled wines, such as wassail and gluwein.
12 Days of Bacon: Day Twelve « TV BACON
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Yuletide "wassail", can be derived from his having "powlert up and down" in a county abounding with comfortable manor houses and cosy inns.
Dickens-Land
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With political, social, and religious turmoil raging only miles away, he created in his poetry a lively and animated world in which he sings of may-poles yielding to hock-carts that, in turn, make way for wassails and wakes.
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And each meeting meant a drink; and there was much to talk about; and more drinks; and songs to be sung; and pranks and antics to be performed, until the maggots of imagination began to crawl, and it all seemed great and wonderful to me, these lusty hard-bitten sea - rovers, of whom I made one, gathered in wassail on a coral strand.
Chapter 16
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And each meeting meant a drink; and there was much to talk about; and more drinks; and songs to be sung; and pranks and antics to be performed, until the maggots of imagination began to crawl, and it all seemed great and wonderful to me, these lusty hard-bitten sea - rovers, of whom I made one, gathered in wassail on a coral strand.
Chapter 16
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Before enclosures, festivals were vigorously convivial; they were ‘off-licence’ times, drunken, licentious and rude, from midsummer ales to apple-tree wassailing, to May Day's liaisons.
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Every man, woman and child seems to be out wassailing - bar one.
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Last week the news item about the forthcoming wassail on this Wednesday, December 12, said that Warrenpoint Town Hall was the venue.
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It's an old tradition, which, along with wassailing and mumming, we have performed over the years in and around Skipton, and many people, especially those young in heart, enjoy the music and dance in which all are invited to participate.
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I wish it were Christmas, with the family and gifts and wassail and - ooh! the music.
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Dillon offered him a glass of hot wassail, but Trey declined.
ANGELS EVERYWHERE
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After 1800, this Christmas misrule took on a nastier tone, as young and alienated working-class New Yorkers began to use wassailing as a form of rambling riot, sometimes invading people's homes and vandalizing their property.
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Trust me when I say that those of you drinking wassail made only from apple juice, or having a fruitcake that hasn't been drowned in brandy are missing out on something exquisite.
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Imagine what it would be like doing business if your operation was designed to be an authentic historical recreation, down to the beverage menu that greeted customers with such obscure offerings as shrub, nog and wassail.
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He was apt to tell me when he had been sitting up all night, whether in study or what he called wassail; but I could always guess the fact from his appearance.
A Romantic Young Lady
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For hot "wassail", use orange koolaid the church's brand is best....but you can't buy it with a pinch of cinnamon and a tiny pinch of cloves in it, then heat it.
Archive 2007-02-01
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Over the centuries, various ceremonies and rituals developed around the tradition of drinking wassail.
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They were made from c. 1660 but were probably intended for punch or wassail like their treen counterparts.
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It's a general description of nineteenth-century English Christmas customs, including wassailing and guising, apparently taken from published accounts.
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The local custom of apple-tree wassailing might be of interest to either group after its mention in the bestselling novel set in Herefordshire.
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They put away their coats and sat in the living room sipping wassail.
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It just goes to show that for all the Falstaffian wassail, there's nothing quite like a gory shank from nave to chaps to get the punters in.
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On Wassail night, evil spirits are banished from the orchards and offerings ensure next year's apple crop.
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The word wassail comes from the Anglo-Saxon greeting waes hael, which meant “be well.”
Christmas Feast
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Fearing the dark, into which he observed all men passed, he built beyond the dark a fairer region, a happier hunting-ground, a jollier and robuster feasting-hall and wassailing-place, and called it variously
CHAPTER XIV
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A history like this and it took them 40 odd years to get rid of the Red Army; probably too busy wassailing to notice, I shouldn't wonder.
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On Wassail night, evil spirits are banished from the orchards and offerings ensure next year's apple crop.
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They dominate nearly half the tavern's area, loudly drinking, singing, boxing, and otherwise wassailing to the extent that almost nothing else can be heard or done by others.
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Every one now had tasted the wassail-cup except Paulina, whose pas de fée, ou de fantaisie, nobody thought of interrupting to offer so profanatory a draught; but she was not to be overlooked, nor baulked of her mortal privileges.
Villette
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They were made from c. 1660 but were probably intended for punch or wassail like their treen counterparts.
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Dillon offered him a glass of hot wassail, but Trey declined.
ANGELS EVERYWHERE
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It's an old tradition, which, along with wassailing and mumming, we have performed over the years in and around Skipton, and many people, especially those young in heart, enjoy the music and dance in which all are invited to participate.
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Glogg, gluhwein, poker beer, bishop, toddy, hot punch, flip, rumfustian, and wassail are all of the warmed spirit family.
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Snuggled away in other cottages, you'll find chestnut sellers and storytellers, mummers and madrigal singers - to really get into the spirit of the thing, you could wassail your way from door to door.
