December 17, 2007 at 1:42 am sry, Ambercat, nawt pawsybl tu sai “fuxin yr persepshunz” in wun-sillabub werdz. From Wordnik.com. [Meeror - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
Mary Magdalen salvaged a fine china sillabub stand, with little white-and-gold covered cups on it, from. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman Named Smith] Reference
'We were just saying how nice it would be to have two or three pretty girls, and a sillabub, under those cedars,' replied Captain Bouncey. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour] Reference
At a minuet or sillabub, poor Antoinette was unrivaled; and Charles, on the tightrope, was so graceful and so gentil that Madame Saqui might envy him. From Wordnik.com. [Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1] Reference
It nevertheless involved a charm, on which -- a devoted epicure of my own emotions -- I resolved to pause, and enjoy the moral sillabub until quite dissolved away. From Wordnik.com. [The Blithedale Romance] Reference
Having employed about two hours in retirement, I sallied out at the first summons to breakfast, where our conversation with the ladies, like whip sillabub, was very pretty, but had nothing in it. From Wordnik.com. [The Westover Manuscripts: Containing the History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina; A Journey to the Land of Eden, A. D. 1733; and A Progress to the Mines. Written from 1728 to 1736, and Now First Published] Reference
We came presently to a little stone summerhouse or arbour, enclustered with leaves and flowers of ivy and convolvulus, wherein two great dishes of cherries stood and bowls of honeycomb and sillabub. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance] Reference
Must walk to him, and eat a sillabub. From Wordnik.com. [A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1] Reference
In werds ob wun sillabub!. From Wordnik.com. [Meeror - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
The sillabub of which. From Wordnik.com. [Customs and Fashions in Old New England] Reference
23. sillabub. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
I find in his diary references to these drinks: Ale, beer, mead, metheglin, tea, chocolate, sage tea, cider, wine, sillabub, claret, sack, canary, punch, sack-posset, and black cherry brandy. From Wordnik.com. [Customs and Fashions in Old New England] Reference
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