The word wassail comes from the Anglo-Saxon greeting waes hael, which meant “be well.”. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
Glögg is similar to a variety of historical mulled wines, such as wassail and gluwein. From Wordnik.com. [12 Days of Bacon: Day Twelve « TV BACON] Reference
Yuletide "wassail", can be derived from his having "powlert up and down" in a county abounding with comfortable manor houses and cosy inns. From Wordnik.com. [Dickens-Land] Reference
The wine and wassail, however, befogged his senses. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Oliver Goldsmith] Reference
A "wassail gone bad," Nissen-baum terms the incident. From Wordnik.com. ["The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol' Rescued his Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits"] Reference
But I do still wish I could find someone to wassail with. From Wordnik.com. [I'm A Stranger Here Myself]
Edinburgh presented him with a massive silver wassail cup. From Wordnik.com. [Speeches: Literary and Social] Reference
“I have had overmuch wassail already,” said poor Oliver. From Wordnik.com. [The Fair Maid of Perth] Reference
This is just a wild thought, of course, tossed into the wassail. From Wordnik.com. [Ignorant Armies] Reference
Again was the fire replenished, and again went the wassail round. From Wordnik.com. [The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club] Reference
I saw the tankards borne to our table, I saw the wassail bowl follow. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
Only the man who ladled out the wassail cup was in a position to do so. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
Shouts of wassail came clearly to the listener through the sharp still air. From Wordnik.com. [People of the Dark]
The wassail bowl was a triumph, and the candle of Mr. Pickwick was put out. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
We'll wassail hold till the break of dawn, we friends of the poor man's club!. From Wordnik.com. [Rippling Rhymes] Reference
We regaled him with wassail and gramophone and explained the situation to him. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 7, 1917] Reference
You have had wassail enough for the holiday evening, for you speak thick already. From Wordnik.com. [The Fair Maid of Perth] Reference
I found the tide of wine and wassail fast gaining on the dry land of sober judgment. From Wordnik.com. [The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon] Reference
As she would not want to lose both, she must tell me which son bore the wassail cup. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
Now there was signal made of banquet in the halls of Stowe, of wassail, and the dance. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 45, September 7, 1850] Reference
By the time he has gorged himself with wassail, as is his wont, he will not know an old. From Wordnik.com. [Quentin Durward] Reference
That doesn't mean, of course, that when wassail-time draws near, everything is hunky-dory. From Wordnik.com. [Holiday Cheer: Not Always So Cheerful] Reference
Twelfth day, which used to be celebrated by the liberal use of the customary wassail bowl. From Wordnik.com. [A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide] Reference
She lifted the bowl in both hands as though it were a wassail cup rather than a fatal potion. From Wordnik.com. [River God]
A wassail candle, my lord, all tallow: if I did say of wax, my growth would approve the truth. From Wordnik.com. [The second part of King Henry the Fourth] Reference
"Welcome and wassail, friends and neighbors" I have invited you here this day for two reasons. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Mercenary]
The paper just quoted gives us a hint of the frolic and wassail of that old ‘Festkneipe’ when it says. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference
The rider sleepeth, the hero, far-hidden; 94 no harp resounds, in the courts no wassail, as once was heard. From Wordnik.com. [Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere] Reference
He drained it before turning to nod at the Easterners who watched the brief wassail with apparent disquiet. From Wordnik.com. [A Canticle for Leibowitz]
They gathered about the wassail bowl as we still do today, and they raised their flagons to the cry, "Wes Hal!". From Wordnik.com. [Sunlight Through The Shadows Magazine Volume 1 Issue 6 (ANSI Edition)] Reference
But where were the knights in armor, the courtiers in velvet and satin, the boars 'heads, the venison pasties, the wassail-bowls?. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference
It is a spacious airy room, overhung with chandeliers and lamps in profusion, and bears the marks of many scenes of mirth and wassail. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
Carols, and wassail-bowls, and holly, and mistletoe, and yule-logs de commande — what heaps of these have we not had for years past!. From Wordnik.com. [Roundabout Papers] Reference
Rouwenne sate on her knee, and called to the king, and thus first she said in English land: "Lord king, wassail! for thy coming I am glad.". From Wordnik.com. [Roman de Brut. English] Reference
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