“And now, Sir John de Walton,” he said, “methinks you are a little churlish in not ordering me some breakfast, after I have been all night engaged in your affairs; and a cup of muscadel would, I think, be no bad induction to a full consideration of this perplexed matter.” ❋ Unknown (2008)
Some years, muscadel faces down frost; green thrives; the crops dont fail, sometimes a man aims high, and all goes well. ❋ Unknown (2003)
I brought with me from Constantinople (being by the marchants aduised so to doe) pleasant fruits, muscadel wine, and delicate bisket bread to present vnto the gouernours of Soldaia, to the end I might obtain free passage: because they looke fauorablie vpon no man which commeth with an emptie hand. ❋ Unknown (2004)
On second thought, don't have a glass of muscadel; you've been drinking burnt sack. ❋ Unknown (1997)
It was his custom to wash the tobacco in muscadel and grains, and to keep it moist by wrapping it in greased leather, and oiled rags, or by burying it in gravel. ❋ E. R. Billings (N/A)
Ben Jonson has let us into some of their secrets of adulteration -- the treatment of the leaf with oil and the lees of sack, the increase of its weight by other artificial additions to its moisture, washing it in muscadel and grains, keeping it in greased leather and oiled rags buried in gravel under ground, and by like devices. ❋ George Latimer Apperson (1897)
Mr. Simpson, with a hand that still shook so violently that he could hardly hold his glass, lifted and drank off a cup of muscadel. ❋ Robert Hugh Benson (1892)
Then, when the doors were flung open and the troop of servants came in to their supper, Mr. Audrey blessed himself, and for them, too; and they went out by a door behind into the wainscoted parlour, where the new stove from London stood, and where the conserves and muscadel awaited them. ❋ Robert Hugh Benson (1892)
Only, as the two knew, there still sat in silence within the little wainscoted parlour, with his head on his hand and a glass of muscadel beside him -- he of whom they thought -- the father of one and the friend and host of the other .... ❋ Robert Hugh Benson (1892)
They were very wary and difficult to ensnare, for they rested only for a second at a time upon the fragrant muscadel grapes before fluttering away over the wall. ❋ Pierre Loti (1886)
Her lips are like the muscadel; her brows are black as ink; ❋ Austin Dobson (1880)
There be in the buttery now thirty great spice-cakes, and an hundred mince pies, and a mighty bowl of plum-porridge [plum-pudding without the cloth] ready for the boiling, and four barons of beef, and a great sight of carrots and winter greens, and two great cheeses, and a parcel of sugar-candy for the childre, and store of sherris-sack and claret, and _Rhenish_ wine, and muscadel. ❋ Emily Sarah Holt (1864)
Mistress _Jane_ come anon, and bare us -- to wit, _Milisent_ and me -- away to her own chamber, where she gave us sweet cakes and muscadel; and ❋ Emily Sarah Holt (1864)
And for dinner was corned beef and carrots, and for drink sherris-sack and muscadel. ❋ Emily Sarah Holt (1864)
"And now, Sir John de Walton," he said, "methinks you are a little churlish in not ordering me some breakfast, after I have been all night engaged in your affairs; and a cup of muscadel would, I think, be no bad induction to a full consideration of this perplexed matter." ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
This district is rich in gold, and produces an excellent wine resembling muscadel. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)
"Quaffed off the muscadel, and threw the sops All in the sexton's face." ❋ Pepys, Samuel (1660)
Some years, muscadel faces down frost; green thrives; the crops don't fail. ❋ Unknown (2010)
