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Twice during the meal she retailed Newton's tender asides to his wife, asking, laughingly, if she recognized the vintage.
You may choose your own favorite vintage for this imaginary demonstration, so that it be a deep shimmering crimson in color.
It stirred the pulses like some rare vintage, some subtle distillation of sun-warmed fruit that had been mellowing for centuries.
He inhaled the air, tasting it critically as a connoisseur tastes a vintage, and prolonging the expiration with hygienic gusto.
For me the strong, heady vintages, whether still or sparkling, and the more potent distillations had mighty little appeal.
"Benedictine, perhaps," he suggested, as who should say, "Out of all the world's vintages my mature choice among liqueurs is Benedictine."
Hunting, fishing, boxing, wrestling, occupied the leisure of the two princes, and they shared the rustic festivities of the vintage.
The conclusion was that excesses of drunkenness occurring in connection with the vintage and carnival caused this production of imbeciles.
Once he begs a correspondent to excuse the shortness of his letter, because he and his family were busy with the vintage.
The rapid vintage excited the laughter of the French generals, who, themselves, joined in the scramble for the delicious fruit.
September was, par excellence, the month of the vintage, and then, too, turnips were planted, and the later grains harvested.
You have a glorious future before you, if you will cease to drink the vintage of the pale face, and monkey with petty larceny.
He can have a cold, a temperate, or a warm climate, and farming or gardening, grazing or vintage, varied by fishing or hunting.
A clever repartee belongs to the precious moment in which it is broached, and is of a vintage that does not usually bear transportation.
The guards had French rifles of the vintage of 1870 which carried cartridges with bullets that were really slugs of lead.
The Journalist raised his own glass with staler fingers, and stared for a second through narrowing eyes into the shimmering vintage.
Three times more did Henri enter and demand a bottle of the famous vintage, and each time he seemed a shade less buoyant.
When the period of the vintage arrives, the cares of the proprietors and the labors of the cultivators and makers increase.
Its vineyards, as a matter of fact, repose on a subsoil of iron-stone rocks, which lends a particularly pleasant flavor to the vintages.
He had an excellent dinner, and partook, moderately of course, of the very best vintage in the crypt of that venerable inn.
The country was overspread with vineyards, and, the vintage season being at hand, nothing could be more beautiful than the luxuriant foliage.
This method gives origin to legions of maladies, so that the priests make their harvest of them and the doctors their vintage.
There are no trees to obstruct the genial fire from the sky, which the Germans deem so needful to render their vintages propitious.
In the wine-growing districts the maximum conception of idiots at the time of vintage is enormous, while it is almost nil at other periods.
A desperate starving crowd then forced an entry to the wine vaults at the Docks, and swallowed priceless vintages from pewter pots.
And the intoxication of the high places, an entrancing vintage of oxygen and ice and sun, invaded limb and sinew and brain.
It is easy to discern from varied allusions in the Old Testament that the Canaanite impress of sensuous life clung to the autumnal vintage festivals.
A wedding, too, is the customary precursor of other family gatherings at which the vintage of the Marne plays the same enlivening part.
The hard labor of the day approved the cooling exercise and the crowning refreshments of French cookery and wines of known vintages.
His famous vintage of 1811, judiciously stored and slowly disposed of, brought him in more than two hundred and forty thousand francs.
The present building is said to furnish a replica, of the vintage of 1859, of the tasteless and crude style of the earlier building.
Vines grow wild in the forests, and those which are planted give a red wine not inferior to the produce of any European vintage.
A bowl of water was placed on the table in which the drinkers rinsed their glasses when a new vintage made its appearance.
The palate and the eye weary of a single beverage, however brilliant the vintage, and yearn for a contrast in flavor and color.
"I am a sleeping partner at all times except the vintage, when I awake and ride round among the growers, to test their growth."
"With nineteen days of sun, the vintage will be upon us," he would say; or, "I have but nineteen kilometers more of road before me to-day."
Percy Bingham forgot that he was not in an English inn where the waiters discuss vintages and prescribe peculiar brands of dry champagne.
A mingled perfume of flowers and grapes led the fancy to southern climes, to beautiful blue June days, or to the vintage on the Rhine.
It is mutton of a particular "vintage," and in some cases the name of the breeder of the sheep is printed on the bill of fare.
Thanks to the bitterness which the refuse infuses into the wine, and which, they say, lessens with age, a vintage will keep a century.
I do not know if you are a connoisseur of wine, but if you are, they possess a few bottles of a vintage that will delight you.
There is no brand he could not name, nay, tell you the year of vintage, were he blindfold and a drop but touched his palate.
Many were banished to the provinces, and if they continued to beg, and refused to assist in the vintage, they were ordered to be hanged.
The hired servant was paid in money, the bought servant received his gratuity, at least, in grain, cattle, and the product of the vintage.
Commercial cognac brandies are generally blends of different growths and vintages, the blending being accomplished in large vats some little time prior to bottling.
The supper comprised a choice variety of luxuries, and was splendidly served; the costliest wines of various kinds and vintages sparkled upon the table.
For so much in these studies in sensations are the product of a man who has both made and marred his prose and poetical vintage.
They helped to make the hay on the marshes beyond the village, and they greatly outnumbered the men in the labors of the vintage.
He preferred to see his guests drink the wine of a poor vintage rather than tap the cask which contained the yield of a good year.
She is jealous of seeing me take the Latin hours in hand, and make my way through them as easily as through a vineyard after the vintage.
It was only natural that in Champagne the vine leaf should be popular; on one of the capitals of the nave a pleasant vintage scene is represented.
Other harvests have been stored, with thankfulness, but the vintage has ever been the great subject of conversation in every cottage and at every well.
Tiberius grasped it with an eager hand, and his mouth pressed the lip of the cup as if to drain its ruby vintage to the bottom.
He had changed his tweeds for a long frock coat, slightly green with age, and upon his head was a silk hat of a famous vintage.
To my old friend the captain, whose cheerfulness could be abated only by a failure of the vintage, I offered a tranquil settlement among our hills.
The dust and cobwebs, so dear to the eye of the connoisseur of old vintages, had been sadly brushed off and torn in the operation, however.
The companion picture represents a vintage, with great purple grapes hanging among the bronzing leaves on a trellis, and yellow pumpkins and flowers underfoot.
They were allowed to glean in the fields of maize and to have a share in the vintage and the songs which rose in the setting sun.
That rare something which made every man who knew him love him, bubbled out of him as ceaselessly as the ascending commotion in the golden vintage.
When the first vintage was produced it was found to be delicious beyond the dreams of the old nobleman, who was indeed a connoisseur in wines.
He inquired how long it would be before the first vintage, and when an old man answered clearly all his questions, he felt a new refreshment.
On the appointed day the working people might be seen trooping in from neighboring cantons, where there were no vineyards, to offer themselves for the vintage.
The Purple Claw was housed in a ramshackle building of ancient vintage, and sported as publicity a modest violet lobster which glowed erratically above the door.
We fear, however, that the grape growers there have made a capital mistake, and are likely to have an easy time annually hereafter, when gathering the vintage.
He had several rare vintages of claret standing on the sideboard and some of these I was not allowed even to taste, all for the same reason.
At the end of this gallery is a spacious compartment, where a large stock of pure Champagne cognac of grand vintages is stored for cask and liqueur use.
The inhabitants also wanted to prevent the canons selling wine from their cellars, although they had for a long time done so from their own vintage.
There are so many potent vintages set on the board; so many connoisseurs who will offer to tell you beforehand of the merits of their favorite brands.
The vintage had not indeed as yet begun, but I saw the process performed on a small quantity of grapes, which had been ripened in a garden.
Peaches so abundant that they fed the hogs with them, apples rosy and mellow, grapes for the vintage, were in the first flush of abundance.
As described by Strabo, the country was wholly treeless except for the vines, which produced a wine inferior to none of the most famous vintages of antiquity.
Here the youth of the place bathe, and the inhabitants meet to discuss the prospects of the coming vintage, and rejoice or mourn over the past one.
The appearance of this comet was synchronous with an unusually fine vintage harvest, and "wine of the great Comet year" was long held in great esteem.
He was serious, but calm, for he felt the importance of the crisis, and was tranquilly preparing to gather his grapes, for it was vintage time.
His artful patroness had chosen the month of the vintage, while the emperor, in a rural solitude, was permitted to enjoy the pleasures of a subject.
One day a guest requested leave to taste this especial wine, which was kept for the host alone, supposing it to be of some very rare and choice vintage.
They turned it up over and over, and not one penny of money to be found there; but the profit of the next vintage expounded the riddle.
Perhaps the most interesting thing to be got out of the latter is a study in contrasts between the body, flavor, and bouquet of archbishops of different vintages.
Her raisin wine was perfect, and Aaron smacked his lips as well as the children: the finest vintage of champagne would not have been so palatable to him.
The dinner was finished up with a more manageable vintage, and next day the Aphrodite sailed without further requisition having been made upon her stores of 'Extra Spry.'
During the vintage, long lines of donkeys laden with boxes of raisins come from the vineyards, horses never being used except in cabs and private carriages.
She was on the route of beautiful scenery; these September suns shone for her on fertile plains, where harvest and vintage matured under their mellow beam.
After dinner a bottle of choice old port was placed before my guardian (he was evidently well acquainted with the vintage), and the two ladies left us.
It was said that this would last a whole year long, and would occasion so many other weddings that the carnival might be prolonged until the vintage.
Catherine's Hill, with the foreground of the Bonneville; or the exquisite figure with the sheaf of corn, in the Watermill, with the vintages of the Grenoble subject.
He is a medical graduate of recent vintage, poor but aristocratic, engaged to attend four hours a day at the penitentiary at a salary of fifteen hundred dollars a year.
At another time he is embarrassed by finding that, owing to a bad vintage, the men who have bought his grapes in advance are going to be heavy losers.
As I shall presently describe the real claret vintage upon a large scale, I shall pass the more quickly over my first initiation into the plucking of the grapes.
A blue flag off the mouth of Montague River showed an excellent fishing spot, and by pulling up the flag up would come a keg of rare old vintage.
Often he heard the sound of heavy wheels, and then saw coming along the wagon of the vintages, full of casks and of children with red faces.
The wine varies exceedingly with the vintage; and none but an expert and accomplished palate may dare to say what is good, what is bad, and what is mediocre.
As in the case of other marked comet years, the vintages of which still bring extraordinary prices, Italy has had exceptionally fine harvests of all kinds this year.
She on her part was not a little amazed at the anomaly of a mere ranch hand's knowledge of rare old vintages and looked at him with a new interest.
A perfect eclectic vase is not to be expected, if desired, any more than a fruit or a wine which shall unite the best flavors of all orchards or all vintages.
He is said to have genially inquired of some grave and decorous old gentlemen who were his guests at a vintage festival, whether they were inclined for the pleasures of Venus.
He announced that in wine-growing districts the number of idiots conceived at the time of the vintage and carnival is very large, while at other periods it is almost nil.
The vintage began, and we visited many a vineyard on both banks of the rapid, eddying river, watching the peasants at their wholesome work in the mellowing sunlight.
The dirges which from time immemorial were sung over the beautiful boy Linus, at the season of vintage, probably gave rise to the myth which makes Linus himself the singer.
Many a field did the monster ravage, many a tree uproot; and all the growing vines, which late had borne so rich a vintage, were trampled to the ground.
"I think everybody born in this century has fantasized about a restaurant, but I think it would be insane," he says in a voice as rich and mellow as vintage port.