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  • Mr. Norton and dined with Dr. Tufts whose salted Beef and shell beans with ana Whortleberry Pudden and his Cyder is a Luxurious Treat.

    John Adams diary 46, various loose folded sheets, 6 August 1787 - 10 September 1796 (with gaps), 2 July - 21 August 1804 1961

  • John Philips, the author of "Cyder" and the "Splendid Shilling," was an undergraduate at Christ Church, during Aldrich's term of office, and no doubt learned to smoke in an atmosphere so favourable to tobacco.

    The Social History of Smoking George Latimer Apperson 1897

  • Philip Miller told me, that in Philips's "Cyder", a poem, all the precepts were just, and indeed better than in books written for the purpose of instructing; yet Philips had never made cyder. '

    The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. James Boswell 1767

  • John Philips, in his "Cyder," alludes to the credit that was given to such stories with a delicate but quaint vein of humour peculiar to the author of the "Splendid Shilling."

    The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 Gilbert White 1756

  • Vats with Wine and Cyder; as also the Hogsheads with well − brew'd

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • Vats with Wine and Cyder; as also the Hogsheads with well − brew'd

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • There were young painters with the strongest natural taste for low humour, comic singing, and Cyder – Cellar jollifications, who would imitate nothing under Michael Angelo, and whose canvases teemed with tremendous allegories of fates, furies, genii of death and battle.

    The Newcomes 2006

  • The Way to get Wealth; or, A New and Ready Way to make twenty-three sorts of Wines, equal to that of France ... also to make Cyder ....

    Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine 2006

  • At the Red Lion Tavern on Elbow Lane, on February 2, 1736 according to the Philadelphia Mercury, one regular “laid a wager of Half a Crown that he could drink a Gallon of Cyder Royall within the space of one hour and a half; which he had no sooner accomplished and said ‘I have finished,’ then he fell down dead.”

    Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

  • At the Red Lion Tavern on Elbow Lane, on February 2, 1736 according to the Philadelphia Mercury, one regular “laid a wager of Half a Crown that he could drink a Gallon of Cyder Royall within the space of one hour and a half; which he had no sooner accomplished and said ‘I have finished,’ then he fell down dead.”

    Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

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