"Sherris" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Lorimer himself I lack,' said Musgrave with a good- humoured smile, and the merchant appeared from a room in the rear, something between a counting-house and a bedroom, where he welcomed his former companions, and insisted on their tasting the good sherris sack that had been sent with his last cargo ...
— The Herd Boy and His Hermit • Charlotte M. Yonge
... completely taken off the sharp touchings and spirited reliefs of these embellishments of life, and has worn down society into a more smooth and polished, but certainly a less characteristic surface. Many of the games and ceremonials of Christmas have entirely disappeared, and, like the sherris sack of old Falstaff, are become matters of speculation and dispute among commentators. They flourished in times full of spirit and lustihood, when men enjoyed life roughly, but heartily and vigorously; ...
— Old Christmas From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving • Washington Irving |
