The big event, a wine-barrel race through the streets of Montepulciano, is always on the last Sunday in August. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Really, when I think of myself, a diplomate, a courtier, a man-about-town, curled in a dusty, musty wine-barrel, I am moved with vexation and laughter. ❋ Various (N/A)
He had a chest like a wine-barrel and legs that resembled steel poles, weighed fifty-two kilos, yet according to the manager, of whom he was one of the trusties, frequently carried four-hundred-pound burdens up the long hill below the mine. ❋ Harry Alverson Franck (1921)
No, this is a bottle, a tun, a walking wine-barrel! ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)
She had forgotten, however, to shut off the tap of the wine-barrel, and to add to this misfortune, the Saint's companion broke his glass. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
He was one of those very large and dark Frenchmen, a type not common but yet typical of France; the Rabelaisian Frenchman, huge, swarthy, purple-faced, a walking wine-barrel; he was a sort of Southern Falstaff, if one can imagine Falstaff anything but English. ❋ Unknown (1905)
Once we were men, but they drowned us in a wine-barrel like your lucky dog of an English prince. ❋ Unknown (1903)
I paid any ten shillens for a jimcrack wine-barrel; a saint is sinner enough not to be cheated. ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)
A scarlet _képi_ was set on her thick silken curls, a tricolour sash was knotted round her waist, her wine-barrel was slung on her left hip, her pistols thrust in her ❋ 1839-1908 Ouida (1873)
A scarlet kepi was set on her thick, silken curls, a tricolor sash was knotted round her waist, her wine-barrel was slung on her left hip, her pistols thrust in her ceinturon, and a light carbine held in her hand with the butt-end resting on her foot. ❋ 1839-1908 Ouida (1873)
Cigarette gave a little petulant twist to the tap of her wine-barrel. ❋ 1839-1908 Ouida (1873)
By his daughter's desire the farmer now procured a large number of hares, and a barrel of white wine, which expenses completely emptied his slender stocking, and on the day of the Ogre's visit, she made a delicious and savoury stew with the hares in the biggest pickling tub, and the wine-barrel was set on a bench near the table. ❋ Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing (1863)
Priests passed, and burly friars, one of whom was carrying a wine-barrel on his head. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)
A tailor is sewing before his door with a young priest seated sociably beside him; a burly friar goes by with an empty wine-barrel on his head; children are at play; women, at their own doorsteps, mend clothes, embroider, weave hats of Tuscan straw, or twirl the distaff. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)
But not all the pleasures are porcine at this noisy spot, where diners perch on bar stools, at high communal tables, or-if they're lucky-snag seats along the banquette amid wine-barrel wall decorations and tile work. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Community Supported Agriculture in Indiana food circles, when you here someone use the acronym "CSA," he or she is referring to Community Supported France Bon Appetit/Alamy A wine-barrel storehouse at Château Pontet-Canet in Pauillac, France. ❋ Unknown (2010)
By JAY MCINERNEY My first experience with a sparkling pink wine took place on a blanket on the lawn at Tanglewood in the company of a France Bon Appetit/Alamy A wine-barrel storehouse at Château Pontet-Canet in Pauillac, France. ❋ Unknown (2010)
