"They misliked nothing but our mustard," an Englishman wrote of Cuttyhunk islanders in 1602, "whereat they made many a sowre face." ❋ Unknown (2008)
Trappings: or, perhaps, with the Fox, thought the Grapes sowre, because I could not reach them. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The churnmilke which remaineth of the butter, they let alone till it be as sowre as possibly it may be, then they boile it and in boiling, it is turned all into curdes, which curds they drie in the sun, making them as hard as the drosse of iron: and this kind of food also they store vp in sachels against winter. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Neither did they allow vs any foode but cowes milke onely which was very sowre and filthy. ❋ Unknown (2004)
In the winter season when milke faileth them, they put the foresaid curds (which they cal Gry-vt) into a bladder, and powring hot water thereinto, they beat it lustily till they haue resolued it into the said water, which is thereby made exceedingly sowre, and that they drinke in stead of milke9. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Violenta, met with as sowre a sauce in the farewell. ❋ Unknown (2004)
In the winter season when milke faileth them, they put the foresaid curds (which they cal Gry-vt) into a bladder, and powring hot water thereinto, they beat it lustily till they haue resolued it into the said water, which is thereby made exceedingly sowre, and that they drinke in stead of milke147. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Whereupon the Salomon being a hot shippe, and hauing sundry cast pieces in her, gaue the first shotte in such a sowre sort, as that it shared away so many men as sate on the one side of a Gallie, and pierced her through in such maner, as that she was readie to sinke, which made them to assault vs the more fiercely. ❋ Unknown (2003)
And all this was lodged in a sowre and haughty temper; so as it may probably be believed, he expected to have more observance paid to him, than he was willing to pay to others, tho 'they were of his own quality; and then he was not like to conciliate the good will of men of the lesser station. ❋ Various (N/A)
She is browyd lyke a brystylle, with a sowre loten chere; ❋ Arnold Wynne (N/A)
And whosoever asks to have it explain'd, asks an Impossibility; for 'tis just as if a Man should have a mind to taste Colours, _quatenas_ Colours, and desire, that _black_ should be either _sweet_ or _sowre. ❋ Ibn Tufail (N/A)
Thus we expresse Thraso a boaster, and Demea a sowre felowe. ❋ Richard Sherry (N/A)
When I was a bed I began to call to minde all the sorrowes and griefes that I was in the day before, until such time as my love Fotis, having brought her mistresse to sleepe, came into the chamber, not as shee was wont to do, for she seemed nothing pleasant neither in countenance nor talke, but with sowre face and frowning looke, gan speak in this sort, ❋ Lucius Apuleius (N/A)
Thy generous wine with age growes strong, not sowre. ❋ Richard Crashaw (1921)
When the father or mother looks sowre on the child, everybody else should put on the same coldness to him, and nobody give him countenance, till forgiveness askd, and a reformation of his fault has set him right again, and restord him to his former credit. ❋ Unknown (1909)
If you write with a sowre Grape that would be black, or with Cervices; when you hold them to the fire they are concocted, and will give the same colour they would in due time give upon the tree, when they were ripe. ❋ Unknown (1904)
Then boyl sowre Galls in white Wine, wet a spunge in the liquor: and when you have need, wipe it upon the paper gently, and wet the letters so long until the native black colour disappear, but the former colour, that was not seen, will be made apparent. ❋ Unknown (1904)
Two of these treatises which were extant in the first half of the seventeenth century, dated respectively 1481 and 1483, dwell at great length on secret inks and specifically mention as translated into the English of the time "sowre galls in white wine," and ❋ Unknown (1904)
