drinking-song

Much the same as though one were to be interrupted for a minute in the midst of one of our church liturgies to hear a drinking-song.

Doctor Thorne 2004

If any man expect from my poems the same easiness of style which he admires in a drinking-song for him, I have not written.

The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 James Gillman

You see, I shouldn't care to make the acquaintance of a gorgeous creature with black hair and a train of yellow satin half a mile long, who tosses up a gilt goblet when she sings a drinking-song, and then gets into a frightful passion about what one doesn't understand.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Various

Later on in the evening of the same day he added to this creation two more songs from Shakespeare -- the drinking-song from 'Antony and Cleopatra,' and the well-known 'Who is

Story-Lives of Great Musicians Francis Jameson Rowbotham

A woman rises, as in a tranquil sea the first wave that feels the tempest's breath foams up to announce it; she makes a sign with her hand to command silence, empties her glass at a gulp and with the same movement undoes her hair, which falls in shining tresses over her shoulders; she opens her mouth as if to start a drinking-song; her eyes are half closed.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

Harry sang an old drinking-song to the water-basin with touching sentiment; I gave him hearty applause and joined in the chorus.

Under the Andes Rex Stout 1930

It is possibly the oldest drinking-song in the world.

Lyrics From the Chinese 1913

The very sunlight is molten; and the echoes of a drinking-song come faint but very joyous.

Lyrics From the Chinese 1913

Harry sang an old drinking-song to the water-basin with touching sentiment; I gave him hearty applause and joined in the chorus.

Under the Andes 1914

Harry sang an old drinking-song to the water-basin with touching sentiment; I gave him hearty applause and joined in the chorus.

Under the Andes 1914