Inexplicably, it may be the first appearance of the word posset on this website. From Wordnik.com. [Hooting Yard] Reference
In medieval English upper crust enjoyed a libation known as posset, a. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Water contamination and your health] Reference
Simple but decadent, the posset is a charming dessert, particularly in these surroundings which evoke a time long gone. From Wordnik.com. [Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
An English creation, it descended from a hot British drink called posset, which consists of eggs, milk, and ale or wine. From Wordnik.com. [HOMEMADE VEGAN "PUMPKIN NOG" (AND IT'S A "NOG", NOT A MILKSHAKE!)] Reference
I learned were called posset cups. From Wordnik.com. [Lazarre] Reference
Stygem vénisset, pretium tráiectús solvere posset. From Wordnik.com. [Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader] Reference
I had gone up to his room to drink a posset by the fire. From Wordnik.com. [The King Must Die]
The clause ut ... posset is in apposition with cónsilió. From Wordnik.com. [Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader] Reference
Egg posset, with honey and wine, and soft cheese crumbled in. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
But she suddenly knew what she wanted, and it was not a posset. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
When I got home, Kleobis was back, and taking his bedtime posset. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
Supper being ended, a great posset was brought forth: at this Robin. From Wordnik.com. [The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream'] Reference
His genius had been nursed on sack posset, and not on dishes of tea. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Fielding: a Memoir] Reference
Just then the housekeeper scratched on the door, bringing my posset. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
Iásoní démónstrávit quá ratióne Symplégadés vítáre posset. From Wordnik.com. [Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader] Reference
Ale posset, or milk and ale posset as some call it, is made in this wise. From Wordnik.com. [A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide] Reference
Next morning, early, I brought an egg posset to put some strength in him. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
Etenim ipsi di negare cui nil potuerunt, hominem me denegare quis posset pati?. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
"Gudeman, 'tis impossible, for I must ride so soon as I have imbibed thy posset.". From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
Tanta enim erat éius saxí mágnitúdó ut né á decem quidem hominibus ámovérí posset. From Wordnik.com. [Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader] Reference
After that he picked at the food; before long I got most of it into him, and the posset too. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
See the note on 37, 7. 9. neque ... posset, 'for the distance between them was not greater than. From Wordnik.com. [Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader] Reference
Herculem mágnopere timéret, eum in aliquem locum mittere volébat unde numquam redíre posset. From Wordnik.com. [Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader] Reference
I didn't want him falling asleep before the posset came, then waking to say he would have nothing. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
Illum esse solum in toto orbe terrarum, qui praeceptis etiam salubribus instruere iuvenes quotidie posset. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter] Reference
"Good again -- give him my most humble commendations, and ask him to share thy boasted posset of wine with me.". From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
But feeling ill as I did, the sounds of revelry combined with the posset only to soothe me into a heavy slumber. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
Hós caudís in spéluncam tráxit, né Herculés é vestígiís cógnóscere posset quó in locó célátí essent. From Wordnik.com. [Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader] Reference
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