This champaign supper meant a regular slap-up feed; but no one was allowed any other drink with their grub, but champaign punch made with green tea in a silver kettle.
But when the long hours of public are past, And we meet with champaign and a chicken at last, May every fond pleasure that moment endear; Be banish'd afar both discretion and fear!
Snatch'em, the bum, and I, one night as we pinned him coming home in his cab from the Opera to give a champaign supper at the Clarendon.
He came down here, then went back to Champaign and died in Springfield, Illinois while I was here.
The colored woman I lived with in Champaign told me that they put her on the block and sold her down into Ripley, Mississippi.
But Ithaca no level champaign owns, 730 A nursery of goats, and yet a land Fairer than even pastures to the eye.
All at once Along the dusty champaign swift they flew.
The stars brightened their crowns till Via Lactea shone a highway of silver dust or as the shadow of that primeval river rolling across the blue champaign of heaven.
Emboldened they descend, and now their fanes On Egypt's champaign darken, whilst the noise Of caravans is heard, and pyramids In the pale distance gleam.
He points the charge; the mounted thunders roar, And rake the champaign to the distant shore.
This champaign was cultivated with a kind of corn and divers other crops of strange plants, which comforted us with the hope of getting Christian entertainment.
A wide and long champaign of fruitful green, On either side hemmed in with skirting hill, Stretches before them to the bounding sky, Where Hermon, scarce descried through distance dim, Silvers with frost each morn his crown of snows.
We past by Lemnos, and were up with the Island Tenedos; a fine Champaign Country, only with one Hill toward the middle of it.
This being finished, all the dusk champaign Trembled so violently, that of that terror The recollection bathes me still with sweat.
Over the other half, the mass of thunder-clouds was, I supposed, heaped together; for I could at first discern nothing of the champaign which I knew must be stretched below.
To an infant, a champaign of a hundred miles is not so much as a yard square of gay carpet.
ELIS, the chief city of the ancient Greek district of Elis, was situated on the river Peneus, just where it passes from the mountainous district of Acrorea into the champaign below.
It included not only the champaign country originally designated by its name, but also the mountainous region of Acrorea, occupied by the offshoots of Erymanthus.
Then wandered over the champaign great herds of swine, as fierce almost as wolves, tamed only so far as to know the sound of their keeper's horn.
Eye ne'er hath seen more fearful slaughter: in streams of blood fell Christian men; the linen vestments of the dead did whiten the champaign even as it is whitened by the birds of autumn!
The march or circular sweep of these Prussian lines, from Damm Bridge through the woods and champaign to their appointed place of action, is seven or eight miles; lines when halted in battle-order will be two miles long or more.
In champaign countries they are kept by herds, and a hogherd appointed to attend and wait upon them, who commonly gathereth them together by his noise and cry, and leadeth them forth to feed abroad in the fields.
In champaign countries much rye and barley bread is eaten, but especially where wheat is scant and geson.
It was like the escarped rampart of a stupendous fortress, whose glacis was the beach, and whose champaign the ocean.
The 16th we trended the coast southerly, which was all champaign and full of grass, but the islands somewhat woody.
During the ensuing years, he began to accumulate farming lands in Piatt and Champaign counties and to buy cattle throughout all this section as far south and west as Mt.
During several seasons, he bought for the purpose of feeding cattle, all the corn for sale in Macon, Sangamon, and Champaign counties.
He established the First National Bank in Champaign in 1865--the oldest bank in the county, and was its president at the time of his death.
In 1871, Alexander had to contract his business and part with his Champaign county property.
He also sustained heavy losses by shrinkage in cattle values, and the Champaign county investment proved disastrous.
He voted for nineteen presidents, beginning with Henry Clay, and saw five generations of his family settled in Champaign county.
