Word: wineing
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...afterward understood there were probably not ten. They could hardly speak a word of Latin, so that my comrade could not converse with them. They took us to the library, where there was nothing particular. We looked over it a little. They presented us with a glass of wine. This is all we ascertained there. The minister of the place goes there morning and evening to make prayer, and has charge over them. The students have tutors or masters. Our visit was soon over...
Banquets where the ruby wine...
...this hallowed room was occupied about the year 1780 by Mr. Charles Angier, - may fairies waltz over his uncle's grave! As Mr. John Holmes so delightfully relates, "he conceived the grand idea of a perpetual entertainment and a standing invitation, and his table was ever supplied with brandy, wine, and crackers. The scheme is second only to the Everlasting Club of the Spectator. We take upon us, in the absence of historical evidence, to vouch for the constancy of Mr. Angier's friends. No better goal of pilgrimage for a graduate of convivial turn can be imagined. The shrine...
...themselves would feel indignant if treated in the same way. Indirectly it may do more mischief, and lead to more stringent rules respecting singing in the Yard. The yelling of a few blatant fellows rendered garrulous by a fictitious stimulant has occurred, and must of necessity occur, until the wine-press is counted among the Lost Arts, the crack of doom, or some other indefinitely distant period. Yet we trust the men who have caused this noise have done so unwittingly, and will show the good sense so peculiar to a Harvard undergraduate by abstaining from this school-boy habit...
...talk about wine and cigars...