The Vintnersclaim St. Martin for their patron, and St. Cecilia is the patroness of the Musicians' Company.
The swans which are met with in the upper reaches of the Thames, belong to the Crown and two of the City Companies, namely the Vintners and the Dyers.
And, that so eminent a guest might not lack a better entertainment than cooks or vintners can provide, I sent to the house of Mr John Milton, in the Artillery Walk, to beg that he would also be my guest.
I suppose that they will hardly proscribe the vintners and gladiators, or pass a law compelling every citizen to take a wife.
The vintners ask only to be put upon the same footing as manufacturers, namely, an ad valorem tax of three per cent.
From these several Places, these Undertakers for Marriages have as constant and regular Correspondence, as the Funeral-men have with Vintners and Apothecaries.
The tanners presented an apse-chapel window in honor of St. Thomas Becket, the vintners one that related the story of Noe, planter of vines.
A composition used by vintners to adulterate their wines; also the nick-name for the devil.
The flower of fermenting wine, used byvintners to adulterate their wines.
A thin, small, hard cider, much used by vintners and coopers in parting their wines, to lower the price of them, and to advance their gain.
Wood, that the vintners illuminated at his death, made bonfires, and drank lusty carouses.
In 1687 the vintners were called upon to submit to a tax of a penny a quart upon all the wine they retailed.
Let not our wine be mix'd, but brisk and neat, Or else the drinkers may the vintners beat.
Well do I remember, when I was a boy, some fourteen years old, how often my father would enter into conversation withvintners from the old country, about the feasibility of grape culture in Missouri.
Picard, as Mr. Rye points out, was one of John Chaucer's fellow-vintners on Edward III.
Considering that Thames Street is especially mentioned as a street for vintners (Liber Albus, p.
Several regulations to be observed by London vintners are mentioned in the Liber Albus, ed.
This Picard was one of the Guild of Merchant Vintners of Gascony, a Bordeaux wine merchant, in fact, and a Gascon by birth, although a naturalized subject of the English king.
Nor are these all the hardships many of the Vintners lie under; for, besides, their purses must too often stand a private examination behind the bar, when any of these sort of customers necessities shall require it.
The fraternity of vintners and taverners, anciently the Merchant Wine Tonners of Gascoyne, became the Craft of Vintners, incorporated by Henry VI.
Further, that the said merchant vintners of the said duchy may lodge at their will in the cities and towns aforesaid, and stay with their goods at the pleasure of those to whom the inns or houses belong.
The Quack Vintners, or a Satyr against Bad Wine," 1713; probably a pamphlet got up by the London vintners against Brook and Hilliers, the famous wine merchants recommended by the Spectator.
Those of the company of the vintners had two nicks or marks on their bill, it is said, and hence the popular explanation of the sign.
The Cleargie will dine at the Miter, The Vintners at the Three Tunnes, The Usurers to the Devill will goe, And the Fryers to the Nunnes.
Vintners portrayed the miracle of Cana where water was turned into wine and Goldsmiths ornately dressed the three Kings coming from the east.
My very soul was full of anguish, to see so many doleful spectacles; and yet I could not but smile, to see the vintners everywhere up and down hell, as free as if they had been in their taverns, and only prisoners upon parole.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vintners" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
