The brewer's cares are many, and of longer duration: he is the vintager of our northern climates: his porter or ale should be an agreeable malt wine, suited to the palate of the district or neighbourhood he lives in, or, ultimately, to the taste of his customers. From Wordnik.com. [The American Practical Brewer and Tanner] Reference
Thus speakest thou to thyself; and therefore, O my soul, wilt thou rather smile than pour forth thy grief — — Than in gushing tears pour forth all thy grief concerning thy fulness, and concerning the craving of the vine for the vintager and vintage – knife!. From Wordnik.com. [Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none] Reference
The vintager is not heard among the vines, nor the harvester on his threshing-floor of stone. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of Place and Other Essays] Reference
In the olive season he helped in the gathering; in grape season he offered himself as vintager. From Wordnik.com. [Life of St. Francis of Assisi] Reference
The sun, treading the earth like a vintager, drew from it heady fragrances, crushed out of it new colours. From Wordnik.com. [The Custom of the Country] Reference
Towards the golden marvel, the spontaneous bark, and its master: he, however, is the vintager who waiteth with the diamond vintage-knife. From Wordnik.com. [Thus Spake Zarathustra] Reference
Towards the golden marvel, the spontaneous bark, and its master: he, however, is the vintager who waiteth with the diamond vintage-knife. From Wordnik.com. [Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none] Reference
Than in gushing tears pour forth all thy grief concerning thy fulness, and concerning the craving of the vine for the vintager and vintage-knife!. From Wordnik.com. [Thus Spake Zarathustra] Reference
Than in gushing tears pour forth all thy grief concerning thy fulness, and concerning the craving of the vine for the vintager and vintage-knife!. From Wordnik.com. [Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none] Reference
Observe with what indifference the people swallow the production of the distant vintager, the seaman and the vintner, as if it were a thing of course. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter X. Book V] Reference
Gauguin uttered the paradox, "Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece," and the novelist Elémir Bourges cried, "This is the painting of a vintager!". From Wordnik.com. [Promenades of an Impressionist] Reference
In e mail program, neology a yellowish vintager apprehensiveness is intelligent to dripping a new brutalisation who caravanning be straightforwardness dolourous. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
No neglected bunch of fruit escapes his watchful eye; no careless vintager shakes the precious berries rudely upon the soil, but he is promptly reminded of his slovenly work. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 434 Volume 17, New Series, April 24, 1852] Reference
He will separate thee from this present life, as the vintager gathers the cluster that would have rotted on the tree, and bears it to the wine-press to change it into perfumed wine. From Wordnik.com. [Thais] Reference
But, after a few days had passed, the vintager came, and cut away the bunch of grapes and put it with others, with which it was trodden; and thus the grapes were a snare and pitfall both for the treacherous spider and the betrayed flies. From Wordnik.com. [The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete] Reference
Her spouse, Deuel, who had poured forth such bitter imprecations, now waved his staff, kissed his wife and child with tears of joy, and shouted with delight like a vintager at the harvest season, when jars and wine skins are too few to hold the blessing. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field -- The grain, pulled up by the roots or cut down with a sickle, was laid in loose sheaves; the fruit of the olive was obtained by striking the branches with long poles; and the grape clusters, severed by a hook, were gathered in the hands of the vintager. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
A touch, stain the fingers that clutch them; and the dewy bloom on purple and amber grape clusters, never survives the handling of the vintager. From Wordnik.com. [At the Mercy of Tiberius] Reference
And gladdens with his load the vintager. From Wordnik.com. [On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions] Reference
Our mead cups are filled by the vintager bee. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetry of Wales] Reference
Relying too much on malted grain in the operation of fermentation, we are presented with some of the most pleasing and instructive phenomena of nature; the resolutions and combinations that are formed during the process of the vinous and acetous stages of fermentation, are interesting, beyond comparison, to the brewer, malt and molasses distillers, vintager, cider and vinegar maker, &c. The elastic fluids and volatile principles that are extricated and escape, formerly so little attended to, are now better understood. From Wordnik.com. [The American Practical Brewer and Tanner] Reference
Thou wilt have to sing with passionate song, until all seas turn calm to hearken unto thy longing, — — Until over calm longing seas the bark glideth, the golden marvel, around the gold of which all good, bad, and marvellous things frisk: — — Also many large and small animals, and everything that hath light marvellous feet, so that it can run on violet – blue paths, — — Towards the golden marvel, the spontaneous bark, and its master: he, however, is the vintager who waiteth with the diamond vintage – knife, — — Thy great deliverer, O my soul, the nameless one — for whom future songs only will find names!. From Wordnik.com. [Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none] Reference
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