On second thought, don't have a glass of muscadel; you've been drinking burnt sack. From Wordnik.com. [In the Garden of Iden] Reference
Some years, muscadel faces down frost; green thrives; the crops dont fail, sometimes a man aims high, and all goes well. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2003-12-01] Reference
“And now, Sir John de Walton,” he said, “methinks you are a little churlish in not ordering me some breakfast, after I have been all night engaged in your affairs; and a cup of muscadel would, I think, be no bad induction to a full consideration of this perplexed matter.”. From Wordnik.com. [Castle Dangerous] Reference
I brought with me from Constantinople (being by the marchants aduised so to doe) pleasant fruits, muscadel wine, and delicate bisket bread to present vnto the gouernours of Soldaia, to the end I might obtain free passage: because they looke fauorablie vpon no man which commeth with an emptie hand. From Wordnik.com. [The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.] Reference
Her lips are like the muscadel; her brows are black as ink. From Wordnik.com. [Collected Poems In Two Volumes, Vol. II] Reference
"Quaffed off the muscadel, and threw the sops All in the sexton's face.". From Wordnik.com. [The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Oct/Nov/Dec 1660]
Some years, muscadel faces down frost; green thrives; the crops don't fail. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online] Reference
This district is rich in gold, and produces an excellent wine resembling muscadel. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 05 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time] Reference
And for dinner was corned beef and carrots, and for drink sherris-sack and muscadel. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall] Reference
Mr. Simpson, with a hand that still shook so violently that he could hardly hold his glass, lifted and drank off a cup of muscadel. From Wordnik.com. [Come Rack! Come Rope!] Reference
Only, as the two knew, there still sat in silence within the little wainscoted parlour, with his head on his hand and a glass of muscadel beside him -- he of whom they thought -- the father of one and the friend and host of the other. From Wordnik.com. [Come Rack! Come Rope!] Reference
"And now, Sir John de Walton," he said, "methinks you are a little churlish in not ordering me some breakfast, after I have been all night engaged in your affairs; and a cup of muscadel would, I think, be no bad induction to a full consideration of this perplexed matter.". From Wordnik.com. [Waverley Novels — Volume 12] Reference
Ben Jonson has let us into some of their secrets of adulteration -- the treatment of the leaf with oil and the lees of sack, the increase of its weight by other artificial additions to its moisture, washing it in muscadel and grains, keeping it in greased leather and oiled rags buried in gravel under ground, and by like devices. From Wordnik.com. [The Social History of Smoking] Reference
"Dom Philippe would not touch the muscadel at first, and now he cannot have too much. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Achievement] Reference
"Come, Doctor Ruy, there is excellent muscadel here, none better may be had at the Emperor's table. From Wordnik.com. [In the Garden of Iden] Reference
I'll have the glass of muscadel, and you can tell me why you're metabolizing burnt sack in a torn bodice. ". From Wordnik.com. [In the Garden of Iden] Reference
But here comes the muscadel and the breakfast; wilt thou take some refreshment; — or shall we go on without the spirit of muscadel?”. From Wordnik.com. [Castle Dangerous] Reference
Have a glass of muscadel. From Wordnik.com. [In the Garden of Iden] Reference
And drink in pails the strongest muscadel. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Part of Tamburlaine the Great] Reference
But here comes the muscadel and the breakfast; wilt thou take some refreshment; -- or shall we go on without the spirit of muscadel? ". From Wordnik.com. [Waverley Novels — Volume 12] Reference
Or muscadel, your frolic. From Wordnik.com. [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook] Reference
Dyed like a stream of muscadel. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator] Reference
Nor washes it in muscadel and grains. From Wordnik.com. [The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr.] Reference
Bolsenas eels and cups of muscadel. From Wordnik.com. [Purgatory. Canto XXIV] Reference
After a storm; quaff'd off the muscadel. From Wordnik.com. [The Taming of the Shrew] Reference
Or muscadel, your frolic. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
"Where'd you get the muscadel?". From Wordnik.com. [In the Garden of Iden] Reference
Bolsena's eels and cups of muscadel. ". From Wordnik.com. [Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete] Reference
After a storm; quaff’d off the muscadel. From Wordnik.com. [The Taming of the Shrew] Reference
"Quaffed off the muscadel, and threw the sops. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference
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