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...hs; and the prosperous town of Ostend was an obscure haven, a straggling village where pirates dwelt in security among the fishermen and the few poor merchants who lived in the place....

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...llage where pirates dwelt in security among the fishermen and the few poor merchants who lived in the place. But though the town of Ostend consisted a... ...andles flickered. The lectern, gay as a chanter undone by the treachery of wine, was skipping about like a peal of Chinese bells. Then I knew that the... ...accustomed as thou hast been to live on bread and to mingle water with thy wine. Unlike all others in all things, formerly thou wouldst bid thy lovers...

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...yracuse, plead no more; I am not partial to infringe our laws: The enmity and discord which of late Sprung from the rancorous outrage of your duke To merchants, our well-dealing countrymen, Who wanting guilders to redeem their lives Have seal?d his rigorous statutes with their bloods, Excludes all pity from our threatening looks. For, since the mortal and intestine jars ?T...

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... and discord which of late Sprung from the rancorous outrage of your duke To merchants, our well dealing countrymen, Who wanting guilders to redeem th... ... to my inn and dine with me? First Merchant : I am invited, sir, to certain merchants, Of whom I hope to make much benefit; I crave your pardon. Soon... ...S : My liege, I am advised what I say, Neither disturbed with the effect of wine, Nor heady rash, provoked with raging ire, Albeit my wrongs might ma...

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...ours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two continents, were deeply interested in the matter....

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... in the interior of conti- nents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe an... ...rand Hotel in Paris. I must say, however, that there was neither bread nor wine. The water was fresh and clear, but it was water and did not suit Ned ... ...ood had formed in the bruised and broken mass, in colour like the dregs of wine. There was both contusion and suffusion of the brain. His breathing wa... ...osed by this historical lesson. “I will continue. This is what passed. The merchants of Cadiz had a privilege by which they had the right of re- ceivi...

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...summate negotiators arguing in the interests of calico, jewels, frippery , wines; and often displaying more true diplomacy than ambassadors themselves... ...es her round the waist or by the heart; gurgles at dinner like a bottle of wine and pretends to draw the cork by sounding a filip on his distended che... ...e rape of ideas which these caterers for the pub- lic mind, like the slave-merchants of Asia, tear from the pa- ternal brain before they are well matu... ...intervals and could give his wife excellent advice as to the sale of their wines; but at such times he became extremely annoying, and would ransack he... ... va- garies. He insisted on keeping a sack of flour and two pun- cheons of wine in the cellar of his house, and he would allow no one to lay hands on ... ...e puncheons. Ma- dame Margaritis could nearly always persuade him that the wine had been sold at an enormous price, which she paid over to him, and wh... ...s often sold in Paris adulterated with brandy and called Madeira. The wine-merchants buy it up, when our vintage has not been good enough for the Dutc...

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...important in his neighbourhood, while decreasing the price he pays for his wine, that he may miser- ably indemnify himself for the outlay. A sip of hi... ...ne, that he may miser- ably indemnify himself for the outlay. A sip of his wine fetched the breath, as when men are in the presence of the tremen- dou... ...ave been able to make such an appearance while doing daily battle with his wine, was a proof of great physical vigour. His pace was leisurely, as it m... ...ry at fifteen shillings per dozen on his table instead of the ceremo- nial wine at twenty-five shillings, assisted him to say hospi- tably, “Oh! ah! y... ...tion of the host is exceedingly so,” said Mr. Fellingham; “but I think his wine the most unromantic liq- uid I have ever tasted.” “It must be that!” c... ...Fortunately Miss Smith had induced her father to get his own wine from the merchants. “A happy resolution,” said Fellingham; “and a saving one.” He he...

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...lesex shore of the Thames; stood the place of busi- ness of Wilding & Co., Wine Merchants. Probably as a jo- cose acknowledgment of the obstructive ch... ... shore of the Thames; stood the place of busi- ness of Wilding & Co., Wine Merchants. Probably as a jo- cose acknowledgment of the obstructive charact... ...ttles, both full and empty, both to and from the cellars of Wilding & Co., Wine Merchants. Even that commerce was but occasional, and through three-fo... ..., both full and empty, both to and from the cellars of Wilding & Co., Wine Merchants. Even that commerce was but occasional, and through three-fourths... ... tree in Cripple Corner. All Cripple Cor- ner belonged to Wilding and Co., Wine Merchants. Their cel- lars burrowed under it, their mansion towered ov... ... in Cripple Corner. All Cripple Cor- ner belonged to Wilding and Co., Wine Merchants. Their cel- lars burrowed under it, their mansion towered over it... ...eir mansion towered over it. It really had been a mansion in the days when merchants inhabited the City, and had a ceremonious shelter to the doorway ... ...0 No Thoroughfare “Y es,” said Mr. Bintrey. “Yes. Ha, ha!” A decanter, two wine-glasses, and a plate of biscuits, stood on the desk. “Y ou like this f... ...e of biscuits, stood on the desk. “Y ou like this forty-five year old port-wine?” said Mr. Wild- ing. “Like it?” repeated Mr. Bintrey. “Rather, sir!” ...

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... Homer continued his career of difficulty and distress, un til some Chian merchants, struck by the similarity of the verses they heard him recite, ac... ...o her side; Far from the suitor train, a brutal crowd, With insolence, and wine, elate and loud: Where the free guest, unnoted, might relate, If haply... ...inds allure the taste, Of choicest sort and savour, rich repast! Delicious wines the attending herald brought; The gold gave lustre to the purple drau... ... from their deed I rightlier may divine, Unseemly flown with insolence and wine? Unwelcome revellers, whose lawless joy Pains the sage ear, and hurts ... ...rugality of kings. Scarce all my herds their luxury suffice; Scarce all my wine their midnight hours supplies. Safe in my youth, in riot still they gr... ...aval stores; Bread, that decaying man with strength supplies, And generous wine, which thoughtful sorrow flies. Meanwhile the mariners, by my command,...

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...e master of the house had in- vited a few intimate friends, capitalists or merchants, and several agreeable and pretty women, whose pleasant chatter a... ...to reflect about it. “Is he ill?” I said to myself. “Has he drunk too much wine? Is he ruined by a drop in the Funds? Is he thinking how to cheat his ... ...r landlord, who was boasting of Andernach, his inn, his cookery, the Rhine wines, the Republican army, and his wife, were all three listening with a s... .... “Messieurs,” said the merchant, “permit me to offer you a few bottles of wine to wash down the carp. We’ll ease the fatigues of the day by drinking.... ...oth- ing remained on the table but biscuits, cheese, dried fruit, and good wine, the guests, chiefly the young Frenchmen, became communicative. The la... ...ng for ten years.” They talked thus like men whose tongues are loosened by wine, and they each took that friendly liking to the others of which we are...

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...de of a giver of holy water; “perhaps you can tell me why con- ductors and wine-merchants are so fond of it?” 27 Balzac Blondet, a master of irony, a... ... a giver of holy water; “perhaps you can tell me why con- ductors and wine-merchants are so fond of it?” 27 Balzac Blondet, a master of irony, alread... ...to her head to come and preach morality or something! There’s lots of good wine to get out of it.” After these last instructions, which the sly look i... ...way opened a cellar built of Bur- gundy brick, containing several casks of wine. Though the kitchen utensils of the peasantry are usually only two, na... ...h coun- try air, this cottage exhaled the same strong and nauseous odor of wine and food which assails you in Paris as you pass the door of the cheap ... ...privileges exist which are obtained and preserved with as much care as the merchants of a city dis- play in getting theirs. Mademoiselle Laguerre was ... ...the loss of his wife, he tried to drown his troubles, like the English, in wine, and then, when he had put the poor deceased out of his mind, he found... ... A few thousand a year more or less, the indemni- ties exacted by the wood-merchants for the damages commit- ted by the peasants,—what were they to a ... ...,—which were intrusted, like those of Gaubertin, to the commissary of wine-merchants of the department in Paris, a certain Leclercq, a native of Soula...

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...ve shaken France since 1789. In this hilly street the ground-floors of the merchants are neither shops nor warehouses; lovers of the Middle Ages will ... ...country, as in Touraine, atmospheric vicissitudes control commercial life. Wine-growers, proprietors, wood-merchants, coopers, inn- keepers, mariners,... ...eric vicissitudes control commercial life. Wine-growers, proprietors, wood-merchants, coopers, inn- keepers, mariners, all keep watch of the sun. They... .... This being foreseen, and purchases, sales, and profits provided for, the merchants have ten or twelve hours to spend in parties of pleasure, in maki... ...nished the Republican armies with two or three thousand puncheons of white wine, and took his pay in splendid fields belonging to a community of women... ...,”—a local term used to de- note those that produced the finest quality of wine. He might have asked for the cross of the Legion of honor. This event ... ...eyard, which in fruitful years yielded seven or eight hundred hogsheads of wine. He owned thirteen farms, an old abbey, whose windows and arches he ha... ...due to one who owed no man any- thing, who, skilful cooper and experienced wine-grower that he was, guessed with the precision of an astronomer whethe...

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... known in Europe. We had also drink of three sorts, all whole some and good: wine of the grape; a drink of grain, such as is with us our ale, but more... ...here are made divers drinks, breads, and meats, rare and of special effects. Wines we have of grapes, and drinks of other juice, of fruits, of grains,... ...ture house, where we make all sweatmeats, dry and moist, and divers pleasant wines, milks, broths, and salads, far in greater variety than you have. ... ...d abstracts, and pat terns of experiments of all other parts. These we call merchants of light. “We have three that collect the experiments which a... ...al, the inventor of glass, the inventor of silk of the worm, the inventor of wine, the inventor of corn and bread, the inventor of sugars; and all the...

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...rgue and over the Pont Neuf— to reproach us for our Sunday travelling. The wine shops (every second house) were driving a roaring trade; awnings were ... ...r anything stirring about the place but a dangling bush, indicative of the wine inside: which flutters idly in the wind, in lazy keeping with every t... ...ve Courier, in particular, is everywhere: looking af ter the beds, having wine poured down his throat by his dear brother the landlord, and picking u... ... afterwards; some poultry afterwards; a dessert afterwards; and no lack of wine. There is not much in the dishes; but they are very good, and always r... ... served in the iron cauldron it was boiled in. They have a pitcher of thin wine, and are very merry; merrier than the gentleman with the red beard, wh... ...left a dreary slope of land, on which the country houses of the Marseilles merchants, always star ing white, are jumbled and heaped without the sligh... ...he old days of the city: with its beau ties, tyrants, captains, patriots, merchants, counters, priests: nay, with its very stones, and bricks, and pu... ... 100 Pictures from Italy tions observed there, in reference to trade and merchants, are very liberal and free; and the town, of course, benefits by ... ...bald spot was scarcely distinguishable from the rest. The cigar and pastry merchants resigned all thoughts of business, for the moment, and abandoning...

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...hen he came to belong to two spouting-clubs at Oldborough, among the young merchants and lawyers’- clerks—to blow the flute nicely, and play a good ga... ...ed Sir George and his party, who drank with great 19 Thackeray gusto; the wine which was administered to the persons immediately around Mr. Scully wa... ...o each other very wry and ominous faces, and whispered much. He tasted his wine: it was a villanous compound of sugar, vitriol, soda-water, and green ... ...going to propose the ladies; let us at any rate drink such a toast in good wine.” (“Hear, hear!”) “Drink her Ladyship’s health in this stuff? I de- cl... ...ge; the very servants looked like noblemen. The cook had done wonders; the wines were cool and rich, and Lady Gorgon was splendid! What attention did ... ... look so in old days, and forgive me my caprices then. Do give me a little wine—we will drink to the memory of old days.” Her eyes filled with tears; ...

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...he friends were requested to declare which they liked best, a pint of good wine, or a tun of cheap rubbish; a diamond of twenty-two carats, or a flint... ...m into expense, and proving to them, if need were, by sound argument, that wines were dear, and that whatever they might think, noth- ing was given aw... ... all the lampreys in the market, and announced them- selves as first-class merchants, who never carried their goods with them, and travelled only with... ...egan to knit his brows and go more slowly about that which his high- class merchants required of him. Fearing that he had made a bad bargain with them... ...hereupon the host sat down, but not until he had poured out a gobletful of wine. “My turn first,” said the Anjou man. “I commence.” “In our Duchy of A... ...d. A good man of Larze, returning one night from his evening prayer to the wine flasks of Pomme-de-Pin, where he had left his understanding and 12 Ba... ...is dilemma, and opened the door of the house to him, out of respect to the wine, which is lord of this country. The good man then went and got into th... ...none of whom failed to come. Seeing the immense wealth of the great lords, merchants, warriors, members of the service, and others, brought by the soj...

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...have been taken by strangers for some whitewashed fort on a floating isle. Merchants on ‘change seem the passengers that buzz on her decks, while, fro... ...s the rest, and have cards.” “Thank you, I never play cards.” “A bottle of wine?” “Thank you, I never drink wine.” “Cigars?” “Thank you, I never smoke... ...ce might, to the hu- mane mind, present features not altogether welcome as wine and olives after dinner. Still, he was not without compensa- tory cons... ...e and feminine sensibility. Without sending a single fume to his head, the wine seemed to shoot to his heart, and begin soothsaying there. “Ah,” he cr... ... begin soothsaying there. “Ah,” he cried, pushing his glass from him, “Ah, wine is good, and confidence is good; but can wine or confidence percolate ... ...ten thousand strong, like the Irish Rebellion, breaks out in you now. That wine, good me, should do it! Upon my soul,” half seriously, half humorously...

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...s at this minute (rather flushed with his joint of mutton and half pint of wine), taking out his pencil and scoring under the words “foolish, twaddlin... ... give way to any ebullitions of private grief. A seed-cake and a bottle of wine were pro- duced in the drawing-room, as on the solemn occasions of the... ... at this occurrence. He and Joseph Sedley drank a fitting quantity of port-wine, tete-a- tete, in the dining-room, during the drinking of which Sedley... ...rary, was the great chief and dandy of the Swishtail Seminary. He smuggled wine in. He fought the town- boys. Ponies used to come for him to ride home... ...id the cause of Fair Rosamond’s retiring from the world? Was not a bowl of wine the cause of the demise of Alexander the Great, or, at least, does not... ... of late gone wrong with the luckless old gentleman. V entures had failed; merchants had broken; funds had risen when he calculated they would fall. W...

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...e no doubt prompting him to make his visits, and good- fellowship and good wine to prolong them. “Faith,” says Westbury, “the little scholar was the f... ..., our people seized upon Port Saint Mary’s and sacked it, burning down the merchants’ storehouses, get- ting drunk with the famous wines there, pillag... ..., burning down the merchants’ storehouses, get- ting drunk with the famous wines there, pillaging and robbing quiet houses and convents, murdering and... ...the tavern, and calling toasts (as the fashion of that day was) over their wine, Esmond thought of persons—of two fair women, whom he had been used to... ...and my Harry was likely to die: and my brain was in a fever; and we had no wine. But now—now you are come again, bringing your sheaves with you, my de... ...lver-clocked stockings.” “I think we had best leave the gentlemen to their wine and their talk,” says Mistress Beatrix, rising up with the air of a yo...

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...o have borne arms in those days for the good cause? Then, according to the merchants, I exercised my judicial functions in a way to give general satis... ... perfumers who have reached public honors? Are 9 Balzac there not vinegar merchants and mustard men who com- mand in the National Guard and are very ... ...ave to do with this affair,—you who have made your money as a merchant?’” “Merchants are not in the same position as notaries,” said Madame Birotteau.... ...o an answer,—a prudence sug- gested by the number of her swains, wholesale wine-mer- chants, rich proprietors of cafes, and others who made soft eyes ... ...earned for him this dignity, which ranked him henceforth among the leading merchants of Paris. To improve his knowledge, he rose daily at five o’clock... ...ch infatuated old men seldom forget. One evening, after a supper where the wine flowed freely, Roguin unbosomed himself to du Tillet on the subject of... ...wed by two scullions bearing in three baskets a dinner, and six bottles of wine selected with discernment. “How shall we ever eat it all up?” said Pop... ... brought him an income equal to that of land); he supplied the dinner, the wines, and the wait- ers, under the orders of a major-domo of dignified asp... ...ways raise a laugh. The ex- cellence of the dishes and the goodness of the wines were fully appreciated. It was half-past nine o’clock when the com- p...

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...s at this minute (rather flushed with his joint of mutton and half pint of wine), taking out his pencil and scoring under the words “foolish, twaddlin... ... give way to any ebullitions of private grief. A seed-cake and a bottle of wine were pro- duced in the drawing-room, as on the solemn occasions of the... ... at this occurrence. He and Joseph Sedley drank a fitting quantity of port-wine, tete-a- tete, in the dining-room, during the drinking of which Sedley... ...rary, was the great chief and dandy of the Swishtail Seminary. He smuggled wine in. He fought the town- boys. Ponies used to come for him to ride home... ...id the cause of Fair Rosamond’s retiring from the world? Was not a bowl of wine the cause of the demise of Alexander the Great, or, at least, does not... ... of late gone wrong with the luckless old gentleman. V entures had failed; merchants had broken; funds had risen when he calculated they would fall. W... ... wild with excitement, and prophesying the tri- umph of their Emperor. The merchants closed their shops, and came out to swell the general chorus of a... ... of above five hundred scudi was invited to the balls which this prince of merchants gave during the winter, Becky had the honour of a card, and appea... ...e col- 684 V anity Fair lected; Tyrolese glove-sellers and Danubian linen-merchants, with their packs; students recruiting themselves with butterbrod...

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...dity, presided at what George called her own table. George pooh-poohed the wine and bullied the waiters roy- ally, and Jos gobbled the turtle with imm... .... George was evi- dently of quite a different taste; for when he had taken wine enough, he went off to half-price at the play, to see Mr. Kean perform... ...nd the war; until the Irish maid-servant came with a plate and a bottle of wine, from which the old gentleman insisted upon helping the valet. He gave... ...ing his winnings, and went to a buffet, where he drank off many bumpers of wine. Here, as he was rattling away to the people around, laughing loudly a... ... was flushed and jovial. ‘’Hullo, Dob! Come and drink, old Dob! The Duke’s wine is famous. Give me some more, you sir”; and he held out a trembling gl... ... wild with excitement, and prophesying the tri- umph of their Emperor. The merchants closed their shops, and came out to swell the general chorus of a...