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  • And we did, seated on cushions around low tables, dining on mor­sels of spiced chicken, melon and rolled balls of millet flavored with lemon and sesame, with honey-mead and citron-water in abundance.

    Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

  • With that she paused, clearing her throat, and one of the listening children leapt up to fetch a cup of honey-mead.

    Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

  • Again, they recognised a milkstone which produced an abundant supply of milk in women if only they drank it dissolved in honey-mead.

    The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

  • Again, they recognised a milkstone which produced an abundant supply of milk in women if only they drank it dissolved in honey-mead.

    Chapter 3. Sympathetic Magic. § 2. Homoeopathic or Imitative Magic 1922

  • Presently servants came in and set wine before them -- honey-mead and Danish beer, and metheglin and sweet cakes.

    Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations Edmund Dulac 1917

  • Again, they recognised a milkstone which produced an abundant supply of milk in women if only they drank it dissolved in honey-mead.

    The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897

  • Again, they recognised a milkstone which produced an abundant supply of milk in women if only they drank it dissolved in honey-mead.

    The Golden Bough : a study of magic and religion 1583

  • Bizan shared around a skin of honey-mead he’d been hoarding, and the taste of it was sweet and fiery in my mouth.

    Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

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