Sentence examples for as a flagon from inspiring English sources

Structured as a long night's journey into day, with truly frightening glimpses of a darkness that stretches into eternity, "The Seafarer" turns out to be a thinking-person's alternative to "It's a Wonderful Life" as a flagon of Christmas cheer.

Notably in the foreground a syphilitic mother sitting on the steps lets her child fall to its death over the railing, towards a flagon labeled "Gin Royal", as she takes a pinch of snuff; below her in the steps, an emaciated, bare-chested ballad-seller sleeps with a glass in one hand and a basket and a jug in the other; the ballad hanging from the basket is entitled 'The downfall of Mdm Gin".

Single-note riffs, made of notes as fat and furrowed as truck tires, get pushed through old amps and a flagon of echo.

Catch him on a good day – a hog roast with his peasants in the Cotswolds; a tournament of tumblers down at Stratford-le-Bow – and Thomas Cromeron will pump your hand, stand you a flagon of ale and jest as if he wore the cap-and-bells.

As the gavel falls, the public votes with its hobnailed boots, turning up with a flagon of Olde Schadenfreude to watch the poor bugger hang.

One 20th-century student reputedly demanded a flagon of claret during his exams, having discovered an ancient rule in the University Statute Book entitling him to.

Allegedly there is a statute which says the invigilator has to bring a flagon of ale if demanded, and I could probably have done with this.

Beside him were a pound of sugar, a cup of coffee beans, a Granny Smith, and a flagon of fifty-five-proof grappa.

A remarkable insight into a lost world of magic and myth, best read with a flagon of golden mead – Odin and Snorri's favourite drink.

Or there's cider where a flagon of scrumpy in September is the rugged equivalent of a jug of Pimms in June.

"Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society," remarked St Augustine, eyeing a flagon of mead, and somewhat surprising the merry company with his fifth-century mixed morality.