On an inn-settle, in his maudlin grief, This he resolved, and drank for his relief.
Indeed, at the last words of Godegisele a shudder ran through Neroweg; he brusquely stepped towards her; seized her threateningly by the arm and bellowed in a maudlin voice: "Why do you propose to light me to bed with a lamp?
The horses were ready, the party mounted, and Davy was carried back to the Maudlin bridge, bearing in his hand the silver goblet, as witness of his exploit.
Curiosity now tempted him to listen still longer, when suddenly he saw a group of dwarfish beings emerging from the gloom, and coming rapidly towards him, along the green marsh that borders the Maudlin stream.
Davy was exonerated from any imputation of guilt in the affair, and was careful, during his life, never again to rest at night on the Maudlin bridge.
He would have made his speech, and no one would have suspected that he had been drinking; but as it was he had become a maudlin fool, he had fallen down in drunken helplessness.
As he listened to his maudlin mutterings there could be but one opinion about his condition.
Then the General Election came off, and he went to his constituency, only to fall down on the platform, at a public meeting, in a state of maudlin drunkenness.
Please do not misunderstand me; I am not growing maudlin nor sentimental; I am simply stating facts.
She ismaudlin and resents no liberties taken with her.
She had seen Ole Fred carried on board some time ago by sympathetic, rather maudlin friends.
He guessed that the sort of half-maudlin love-making that had won Violet would never suit Marcella.
The last day of the fortnight he came home without the waistcoat: whether he had sold that, or given it away in maudlin generosity, or lost it in some fantastic fashion she could never gather.
On an inn-settle, in his maudlin grief, This he revolved, and drank for his relief.
And as they waxed maudlin he studied them, watching the beast rise and master them and thanking God that he was no longer as they.
He scanned the register in a maudlin way, and sent up his card to the room, which, as good luck would have it, was on the topmost floor, so crowded was the hotel that night.
We might certainly look for a few better speeches than Lord Londonderry made; for his were, indeed, but poor maudlin affairs.
The cantata has for its theme the rivalry of a "pigmy scraper with his fiddle" and a strolling tinker for a beggar woman: hence the maudlin affection.
The maudlin stage had passed long ago, at the beginning of supper, when the Major had leaned his head on his plate and wept over the ingratitude of man and the peculiar poignancy of "old Frankie's" individual exhibition of it.
However, and be that as it may, she had the customary story to account for her present vocation when somebody who was maudlin with a sympathy based on alcohol asked her how she came to be what she was.
After all, then, the sobbing they had heard was the maudlin crying of a drunken man.
A moonlight walk on a Bank Holiday, a little maudlin sentiment, and over you throw all your chances in life.
From this he proceeded to decry over-wrought sentiment in favor of criminals: Germs of maudlin sentimentality are widespread.
In the description of the Smart's day we are told how after chapel he drank tea with some celebrated toast, and then waited upon her to Maudlin Grove or Paradise Garden and back again.
His article was occasioned by a report in all the papers of the death of Dr Pudsey, one of the senior Fellows of "Maudlin College (who) died there last week aged near an hundred years.
Having given conclusive demonstrations of these two accomplishments, he drank tea with some celebrated toast and attended her to Maudlin Grove or Paradise Garden and back again.
One day his horse stumbled upon Maudlin bridge, and the resigned president let his bridle go, and drawing up the waistband of his breeches as he sat bolt upright, he exclaimed before a crowded audience, mors omnibus communis!
