Weatherley, Mead & Hussey also deserve credit for their discernment, and for the spirited manner in which they have taken up Mr. Dickinson's ingenious invention.
He could only believe that her heart was less deep than his, and the thought only added bitterness to his mead of sorrow.
As he laboured from man to man with his jug of mead to keep the brown horns brimming, he thought of the golden head that had glimmered in the criss-cross light of the yews in the castle garden.
Smooth and sweet are the streams that flow through it; mead and wine abound of every kind; there men are all fair, without blemish; there women conceive without sin.
There with wild honey drip the forest trees; The stores of wine and mead shall never fail.
Our bath is the frothing brine, In bays by red rocks guarded; For mead at our father's table We drink of the salt, blue sea.
Nor let her more my once fond passion heed, For by her faithlessness 'tis blighted now, Like flow'ret on the verge of grassy mead Crushed by the passing plow.
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Ale unpurchased there was flowing, Mead for which you could not bargain; 400 Ale flowed from the ends of rafters, Honey from the taps was oozing, Ale around the lips was foaming, Mead the mood of all enlivened.
Better is a man's own country, Water from beneath the sabot, Than in unfamiliar countries, Mead to drink from golden goblets.
Of bread there rose a painful need, Though stones were plentiful indeed, And many a German rider fine Forgot the taste of mead and wine.
He sang it there right gaily, Drank mead and cool red wine, Beside him sat and listened Three dainty damsels fine.
Mead and qvass flowed in the very streets, and the castle trumpets could not be heard for the sound of troikas and balalaikas.
Fires were kindled, a score or two of hares and a brace of deer were skinned, and the flesh placed on sticks to broil; skins of mead foamed and hissed into the wooden bowls, and the cask of unbroached wine towered in the midst.
The vixen is now at peace, though perhaps it would scarcely be safe to wander too near the close-shaven mead where the keeper is occupied more and more every day with his pheasant-hatching.
Two mounds could therefore be commanded by any one in ambush behind the elm, and all the angular corner of the mead was within range.
Instead of at once entering the wood, he stays awhile on the sward of the mead in the open.
Pauline looked at her sister and felt afraid the new tenant of Plashers Mead would fall in love with her, for Margaret was so very adorable with her slim hands and her sombre hair.
Plashers Mead had never appeared so desirable as now when it was the prelude to such an enterprise as this of consecrating with a last embrace the rain and gloom of November.
He had been here three weeks now, he and deaf Miss Peasey; and were the two of them swept away to-morrow, Plashers Mead would adapt itself to newcomers.
Already the sparkle of the more distant curves of the Greenrush was visible; but Plashers Mead was still hidden by the slope of the bank.
Next morning very early came a note for her mother from Guy in which he said he was leaving Plashers Mead in a couple of hours and begged that she would not let Pauline be the one to go away.
Guy asked, wondering to himself why on this night of nights that was the real beginning of Plashers Meadhe should be blessed by this fortunate encounter.
Do you remember," she was saying, "when Richard came to look at Plashers Mead and we pretended he was going to take it?
Beyond Godbold's unfortunate allusion on the drive, nothing had been said by either of them; and Plashers Mead had not as yet effected that enchantment of his father's senses which would seem to proclaim the moment as propitious.
Pauline wondered vaguely if she could not persuade Margaret to go away for a month, so that the new tenant of Plashers Mead might have had time to fall irremediably in love with Monica before she came back.
As she caught sight of Plashers Mead etched upon the white scene, she wished she had left a message with Margaret to say in what deep disgrace Guy was.
About half way up the hill on the other side of the town from Plashers Mead and the Rectory was a side-street called Abbey Lane that, instead of leading to open country, was bounded by a high stone wall.
He had planned to shut up Plashers Mead and to take a small room in Chelsea whence he would conquer in a few months the material obstacles that prevented their marriage.
Meanwhile, a cup of mead having been offered to Brandon, he observed to his companion, "We must now be setting forth on our journey.
Neither did they neglect to wash down the viands with copious draughts of ale and mead from great pots and flagons placed beside them.
Faithful mother of my being, Hither bring my mail of copper; Strong desire is stirring in me For the cup of deadly combat, For the mead of martial conquest.
Mr Mead deserves thanks for putting in an English dress this curious document from the early ages of Christian philosophy.
Mr Mead has done a service to other than Theosophists by his translation of the Pistis Sophia.
Mr Mead does us another piece of service by including a complete copy of the Gnostic Hymn of the Robe of Glory .
The book, Mr Mead explains, is not intended primarily for the student, but for the general reader, and it certainly should not be neglected by anyone who is interested in the history of early Christian thought.
Mr Mead has at any rate rendered us an excellent service, and we shall look forward with pleasure to his future studies.
Mr Mead writes with a precision and clearness on subjects usually associated with bewildering technicalities and mystifications.
Mr Mead has done his work in a scholarly and painstaking fashion.
The chase hath lost its charm, the helmet sits heavy upon my brow, and the mead hath lost its flavor.
After the horn of mead had been handed round not once or twice only, Sigvald arose and vowed that, before three winters had passed, he and his band would go to Norway and either kill or chase Earl Hakon out of the country.
But mead of such a truly comfortable sort as this I really didn't expect to meet in my older days.
The other had by this time finished the mead in the mug, after which, shaking hands heartily at the door, and wishing each other well, they went their several ways.
For honey sells well, and we ourselves can make shift with a drop o' small mead and metheglin for common use from the comb-washings.
He also poured out half a cup more mead from the quantity that remained, ravenously eating and drinking these as he stood.
They now crossed Mellstock Bridge, and went along an embowered path beside the Froom towards the church and vicarage, meeting Voss with the hot mead and bread-and-cheese as they were approaching the churchyard.
It happened that some warm mead accidentally got into Mr. Spinks's head about this time.
See Water of life, Moisture of life, Mead of gods.
Merchant, you who drink your mead From a golden cup, Shut your ears, and do not heed; Look not up.
Merchant, you who drink your mead While the thirsty die, Shut your eyes, and do not heed-- Pass her by.
There's music in May, From the breath of the mead To the song of the spray!
So the Roman bronze vessel, filled with dark red Rhaetian wine, was passed to the two Alemanni also, and the Batavians gladly drank the mead which Adalo's companions had brought in long wooden vessels fastened on their backs.
And Adalo, hand him from the wall of the tent where it hangs, the mead horn.
The Sarmatian, with laudable impartiality, drank wine and mead by turns.
At his left lay Zercho, but placed in the opposite direction, with his head toward the door and a huge goblet of mead beside him.
Six pots in Iburninga and a broken mead vessel in Mariswik; so two old women complained to me.
Better in the mouth, Brinno; but mead and ale taste better in the heart: it's home drink.
We love the gentle deer, the nimble antelope; Mice love we and springing squirrels; To watch the gaudy flies visit the blooms, to hear On ev'ry mead the grasshopper.
The dignified Naviragh and the two Anardrats looked with growing wonder at the Polish dances; the old men at their mead cups made an increasing noise, like grasshoppers on stubble land.
At last he took a draught of meadand said to his wife,-- "Olenka, but come here!
I wanted to quaff mead at the wedding of Basia and Michael; but I am not sure that instead of mead, I have not provided sour beer, for now Michael will return to his former decision, and imitating Krysia, will put on the habit.
Basia sat at his side, placed food on his plate, and poured mead into his goblet.
Here silence followed, as if some of their sorrow had gone with their tears; then Kmita said, "Tell us how it was, and take some mead to support you.
Dodd, Mead & Company for material adapted for Alcestis, Antigone and Iphigenia; to Messrs.
