A few glasses of champagne were circulated, healths were pledged, and everything got cheerful and lively; and the joy had even extended to some of the ladies on board.
When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes that tipple in the deep Know no such liberty.
The healthsthey had drunk with this girl and that girl; and new turns: competitors who were cropping up .
What with the songs and drinking healths from one table to another, there was no room for politics or anything that could sour conversation.
It was told as a joke invented against that fat butt, Sir William Curtis, that at a public dinner some lover of royalty and Terence proposed the healths of George IV.
He put it to his mouth, and drank their healths then handed it to Gerard; he passed it untouched to Denys.
As for Denys and the other, they feasted recklessly, and plied the bottle unceasingly, and drank healths and caroused beneath that creaking sepulchre and its ghastly tenants.
His successful attempts to preserve theHealths of his Crews are well known, and his Discoveries will be an everlasting Honour to his Country.
If all goes well," he wrote gaily, "this day six weeks I expect to drink all your healths in the water of the Niger.
We were all nearer to him in propinquity than she was, and none of ourhealths have suffered.
For there's none of us, I'll warrant, but thinks that she likes him the best of all; and so we are bound to believe that you have drunk our healths all round.
In a manuscript letter of the times, I find an account of Columbo, the Spanish ambassador, being at Oxford, and drinking healths to the Infanta.
The health of the bride and bridegroom, and that of the bridesmaids being, in general, the only healths proposed.
It is now the custom to confine proposing healths at wedding luncheons within the narrowest limits.
The Bride should leave the Dining-room= immediately after the healths have been drunk, to change her dress for departure.
Had it extended to three years ago, Lord Sandwich and Grenville(1352) of the admiralty would have made an admirable figure as dictators of some of the most Jacobite healths that ever were invented.
My lord has been drinking the healths of Lord Stair and Lord Carteret: he says, "since it was well done, he does not care by whom it was done.
Therefore the ordinary pledging or drinking of such healths is unlawful, because it is the scandalous hardening of others in their sin unto their ruin.
They consider also the custom of drinking healths at dinner as unnecessary, and as tending to no useful end.
This custom, however, of drinking toasts after dinner, is, like the former of drinking healths at dinner, happily declining.
They have exploded the unmeaning and troublesome custom of drinking healths at their dinners.
The dinner was a great success, and although there was no liquor of an intoxicating kind in the bill of fare, there were many healths proposed, and toasts drunk in the harmless beverages which were upon the table in abundance.
French religious, who do not speak much Latin, drink healths in their own language.
He makes her drink healths in sack, and sing and dance home after the fiddlers, under the threat of taking coach and carrying her off to the opera.
The Bishop does me the honour to drink two or three Healths to me.
He gave the healthsof the Ministers, and afterwards of the Duke of Wellington.
I love to see your handwriting; and yet do not press for it, as you are shy: though I address myself equally to both, and consult the healths of both In what I have recommended above.
The Johnstones are going to Bath, for the healths of both; so Richmond will be my only staple.
When the dessert was over, and the healths of absent friends toasted in Tokay and Frontiniac, they all adjourned into the drawing-room; where coffee and tea were soon brought in.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "healths" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
