 | H. R. Duff - Scotland - 1815 - 574 pages
...his delineations : his account, most probably, was written a short time previous to the year 1730: " There lives in our neighbourhood,, at a house or castle,...by cracking his nut (as he terms it) ; that is, a cocoa shell, which holds a pint, filled with champaign, or such other sort of wine as you shall choose.... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 374 pages
...printed in 1754, there is the following instance of Highland hospitality. " There lives at a house called Culloden, a gentleman whose hospitality is...which holds a pint, filled with champagne, or such sort of wine as you shall choose. Few go away sober at any time ; and for the greatest part of his... | |
 | Walter Scott - Novelists, English - 1848 - 418 pages
...commemorates the joyous hilarity of the ' castle' of Culloden when tenanted by the elder brother. ' It is the custom of that house, at the first visit,...by cracking his nut (as he terms it) — that is, a cocoa shell, which holds a pint, filled with champaigne, or such other sort of wine as you .shall choose.... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1835 - 584 pages
...commemorates the joyous hilarity of the ' castle ' of Culloden when tenanted by the elder brother. * It is the custom of that house, at the first visit,...by cracking his nut (as he terms it) — that is, a cocoa shell, which holds a pint, filled with champaigne, or such other sort of wine as you shall choose.... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - France - 1835 - 402 pages
...commemorates the joyous hilarity of the ' castle ' of Culloden when tenanted by the elder brother. ' It is the custom of that house, at the first visit,...by cracking his nut (as he terms it) — that is, a cocoa shell, which holds a pint, filled with champaigne, or such other sort of wine as you shall choose.... | |
 | Walter Scott - Demonology - 1838 - 1198 pages
...Cnlloden when tenanted by the elder brother. ' It is the custom of that house, at the first visit, _or introduction, to take up your freedom by cracking his nut (as he terms it] — that is, a cocoa shell, which holds a pint, filled with champaigne, or such other sort of wine as you shall choose.... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1841 - 456 pages
...commemorates the joyous hilarity of the 'castle' of Culloden when tenanted by the elder brother. ' It is the custom of that house, at the first visit,...take up your freedom by cracking his nut (as he terms it)—that is, a cocoa shell, which holds a pint, filled with champaigne, or such other sort of wine... | |
 | David Wardlaw Scott - Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746 - 1843 - 274 pages
...cannons pointed against those strangers who passed by without honouring his mansion with a visit. " There lives in our neighbourhood, at a house (or castle)...up your freedom by cracking his nut, (as he terms it,)—that is, a cocoa-nut shell, which holds a pint filled with champagne, or such other sort of... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Jacobite Rebellion, 1715 - 1845 - 424 pages
...the North," written previous to the year 1730, " belonging to a gentleman whose hospitality knows no bounds. It is the custom of that house, at the first visit or introduction, to take up war freedom, by cracking his nut, as he terms it ; that is, a cocoashell, which holds a pint, filled... | |
 | Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1847 - 862 pages
...shall let Hurt, brought up under the somewhat milder conviviality of English military life, speak : "There lives in our neighbourhood, at a house (or...is almost without bounds. It is the custom of that boose, at the first visit or introduction, to take up your freedom by cracking his nut (as he terms... | |
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You may guess from the introduction, at the contents of the volume. Few go away sober at any time ; and for the greatest part of his guests, in the conclusion, they cannot go at all. 
