Waldrons's with a supper of bear's meat washed down with metheglin. From Wordnik.com. [Summerfield or, Life on a Farm] Reference
"A feast on bear's meat and metheglin, at Aunt Polly's," cried Colwell. From Wordnik.com. [Summerfield or, Life on a Farm] Reference
Otherwise it differeth so much from the true metheglin as chalk from cheese. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference
Saga to the effect that dead bees give a stinging quality to the very metheglin of the gods. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873] Reference
He gives a receipt — the earliest I have seen in print — for making metheglin or hydromel. From Wordnik.com. [Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine] Reference
Worlidge, in his “Vinetum Britannicum,” 1676, gives us receipts for metheglin and birch wine. From Wordnik.com. [Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine] Reference
In some houses it very nearly resembled the good metheglin, very common in the northern counties of England. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808] Reference
I also popped open a bottle of my very-limited edition mint mead metheglin, which I bottled and put back in '07. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
It comes from the Germans, who drank mead, or metheglin -- a beverage made of honey -- for thirty days after the wedding. From Wordnik.com. [Manners and Social Usages] Reference
Polly too, and she lays down her distaff, welcomes us in, tells us a story of the backwoods, and gives us a taste of her new metheglin. From Wordnik.com. [Summerfield or, Life on a Farm] Reference
Or, to fermentation yielded, producing the spirited metheglin. From Wordnik.com. [Man of Uz, and Other Poems] Reference
This formed one of the ingredients used in making the metheglin. From Wordnik.com. [The Bark Covered House]
Wouldn't you like an applejack or a stiff metheglin to make you sleep sound?. From Wordnik.com. [A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett] Reference
Kittel's mainstay is metheglin, a type of mead made with herbs or spices or both. From Wordnik.com. [Summit Daily News - Top Stories] Reference
Of mead or metheglin, the third indigenous liquor of Southern Britain, I know little. From Wordnik.com. [Beer and Cider] Reference
This strong drink was metheglin, of which two hogsheads were to be delivered at Plymouth. From Wordnik.com. [Customs and Fashions in Old New England] Reference
In the middle of the century metheglin was worth ten shillings a barrel in the Connecticut. From Wordnik.com. [Customs and Fashions in Old New England] Reference
I drinking no wine, had metheglin for the King's owne drinking, which did please me mightily. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference
He said he did not whip me so much for the metheglin, as for lying and trying to deceive him. From Wordnik.com. [The Bark Covered House]
In Virginia whole plantations of the honey-locust furnished locust beans for making metheglin. From Wordnik.com. [Home Life in Colonial Days] Reference
Drake Hill, with foaming tankards of metheglin and dishes of honey and salmon and game in plenty. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart's Highway] Reference
'If it wasn't men, it was horses, or cattle, or pigs, or metheglin -- that's a sticky, sweet sort of beer. From Wordnik.com. [Puck of Pook's Hill] Reference
Presently servants came in and set wine before them -- honey-mead and Danish beer, and metheglin and sweet cakes. From Wordnik.com. [Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations] Reference
Where metheglin was making he would linger round the tubs and vessels, begging a draught of what he called bee-wine. From Wordnik.com. [The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2] Reference
Mead and metheglin, wherewith the Druids and old English bards were wont to carouse, were made from water, honey, and yeast. From Wordnik.com. [Customs and Fashions in Old New England] Reference
It produces good butter, cheefe, and honey, of which laft the na - tives make metheglin, a wholefome liquor, much ufed in thole parts. From Wordnik.com. [The general gazetteer, or, Compendious geographical dictionary [microform] : containing a description of the empires, kingdoms, states, provinces, cities, towns, forts, seas, harbours, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, &c. in the known world : with the government, customs, manners, and religion of the inhabitants; the extent, boundaries, and natural productions of each country, the trade, manufactures, and curiosities of the cities and towns; their longitude, latitude, bearings and distances in English miles from remarkable places; and the various events by which they have been distinguished : including an account of the counties, cities, boroughs, market-towns, and principal villages, in Great Britain and Ireland] Reference
Do you only take a cup of it now and then by yourself, and then come down to your parson, and boast of it, as if it was pure old metheglin?. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2] Reference
In most households there were sideboards well furnished with spirits, brandy, homemade wine, metheglin, etc., which were offered to guests. From Wordnik.com. [Quaker Hill A Sociological Study] Reference
Gold is her metheglin beaker. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
He took the metheglin and began. From Wordnik.com. [Summerfield or, Life on a Farm] Reference
Of rich metheglin deep and full. From Wordnik.com. [Translations of German Poetry in American Magazines 1741-1810] Reference
From foeman's skull metheglin draught?. From Wordnik.com. [The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature] Reference
Taste the metheglin. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.] Reference
Cambria's old metheglin demon. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
MEATH, metheglin. From Wordnik.com. [Every Man in His Humor] Reference
I'll hie me to metheglin and Muldoon's. ". From Wordnik.com. [Marion's Faith.] Reference
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