Here, quaffing mead and ruddy wine, Sit ye my men so brave, Whilst I go to the mountain drear, With my mother speech to have!
Here, quaffing mead from out the shell Sit ye, my Courtmen bold, Whilst I go to the mountain drear, Speech with the Dead to hold!
Otho, sternly, and quaffing a large goblet of wine.
If out of sand comes sand and naught but sand, Affect not to be quaffing at mirage, Nor nickname pain as pleasure.
There was a tinker, two barefoot friars, and a party of six of the King's foresters all clad in Lincoln green, and all of them were quaffing humming ale and singing merry ballads of the good old times.
In front of the door three merry fellows, a tinker, a peddler, and a beggar, were seated on a bench in the sun quaffing stout ale.
Despite the injunction of the fair Morgianna, he found himself half unconsciously quaffing three or four glasses to the good health of somebody; he really did not know whether it was King George or President Jefferson.
Hannah ran and brought the invigorating drink, and after quaffing it Gray drew a long breath and said: "Why, I've got the botherationest letter from the judge as ever was.
The gentlemen adjourned to the little breakfast parlor to drink a parting glass with their host in something stronger than the light French breakfast wines they had been quaffing so freely.
Noreen was on her feet in an instant, hurrying into her hat and coat, and quaffing greedily at the reeking coffee.
Thus I muse as at noonday I recline, Quaffing the juice of the Roman vine.
When Brangaene informs Isolde that she substituted the love-potion for the death-draught, Isolde scorns the suggestion that her guilty love for Tristan is the result of her quaffing the potion.
Deeming her love for Tristan unrequited she determines to end her sorrow by quaffing a death-potion; and Tristan, feeling that the woman he loves is about to be wedded to another, readily consents to share it with her.
I, quaffing off a tumbler of champagne, to assist my invention.
Quaffing port and sherry, Jolly roaring blades, Making gay and merry With the giddy maids.
Pretty maids a-laughing-- Here's to rosy lips, Port and sherry quaffing While the pottle drips.
That quaffing and drinking will undo you: I heard my lady talk of it yesterday, and of a foolish knight that you brought in here to be her wooer.
Our ancestors believed in a future abode called the Walhalla, where the brave warrior, after death, would sit at the feast, quaffing from the skulls of his slaughtered enemies.
The woodcut appears to represent three thegns celebrating a feast by quaffing ale from their drinking-horns.
The answer seemed to satisfy him, and for a while, he made no effort to talk, apparently quaffing the enjoyment fate furnished him.
Just before that he was talking animatedly to me about his sister, and the thought went through my mind 'how well he looks; all the fatigue of the day has gone, and he is his old self again, quaffing enjoyment like a child.
There, then, we dwelt The year complete, fed with delicious fare Day after day, and quaffing gen'rous wine.
King Chabert has proved, since restored from his panic, There's small harm in quaffing pure hydrocyanic; But he never found out it was good for the throng, When scrubbed on their stomachs by great Doctor Long.
Who would imagine, for instance, that the fat blousy female quaffing deep draughts of Maraschino from a goblet, in his famous satire of the Handwriting on the Wall, was intended for the refined and delicate Josephine?
Quaffing it down, and betaking himself to bed, under its somniferous influence, the Wye waterman is soon in the land of dreams.
In that sacrifice Indra became intoxicated with quaffing the Soma, and the Brahmanas, with the gifts they received.
It followeth in Fitzstephen, that the plagues of London in that time were immoderate quaffing among fools, and often casualties by fire.
The only plagues of London are immoderate quaffing among the foolish sort, and often casualties by fire.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quaffing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: drunkenness; lapping; potation; pulling; symposium; tasting
