The vintagers who came from a distance received either a franc and a half per day and their food, consisting of three meals, or two francs and a half without food, the children being paid thirty sous.
The picking ordinarily commences with daylight, and the vintagers assert that the grapes gathered at sunrise always produce the lightest and most limpid wine.
In 1604 the yield was so abundant that the vintagers were at their wits' end for vessels to contain their wine; but three years later so poor a vintage took place as had not been known within the memory of man.
Everywhere the vintagers are busy detaching the grapes with their little hook-shaped serpettes, the women all wearing projecting close-fitting bonnets, as though needlessly careful of their anything but blonde complexions.
Vintagers were passing slowly in between the vines, and carts laden with grapes came rolling over the dusty roads.
The vintagers look up to the lady, the countenance expressing pleasure.
Everywhere the vintagers are busy detaching the grapes with their little hook-shaped serpettes, the women all wearing projecting, close-fitting bonnets, as though needlessly careful of their anything but blonde complexions.
Vintagers are passing slowly in between the vines, and carts laden with grapes come rolling over the dusty roads.
The various contending interests were singularly satisfied, the vintagers getting their two francs and a half a day, and the men at the pressoirs their three francs and their food.
In this hospitable land the vintagersare fed and lodged in the master's house.
But autumn passed; the woods grew yellow and the leaves fell; the joyous shouts of the vintagers ceased to rejoice the hills, and the icy winds of winter blew over the blackened slopes, without Valentine having sought her white marriage robes.
The songs of the vintagers frequently chorussed from one part of the field to the other, ring blithely into the bright summer air, pealing out above the rough jokes and hearty peals of laughter shouted hither and thither.
The bargemen would hear of nothing under five; and, after a tremendous verbal battle, the vintagers announced that they were not going to be cheated, and that if they could not cross the water, they would stay where they were.
As we passed along, the vintagers turned their heads and greeted us.
The bargemen would hear of nothing under five; and after a tremendous verbal battle, the vintagers announced that they were not going to be cheated, and that if they could not cross the water, they could stay where they were.
Men with lanterns and luggage were rushing breathlessly about--and gentlemen with brushy black beards were kissing each other with true French effusion--while a crowd of humble vintagers were being stowed away in the fore part of the boat.
Dinner was late, for it behoves vintagers to make the best of the daylight.
The vintagers were busy in the fields around, unloading the vines of their purple tribute, and many a laugh and jest among the merry peasants enlivened the toil.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vintagers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
