vintager

_ Epithet of Bacchus, "vintager;" here name of a person in the comedy of "Peace."

A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) Sutherland Orr 1865

Which most they love; the fretful wasp, that earliest vintager

Collected Poems 2003

Thus speakest thou to thyself; and therefore, O my soul, wilt thou rather smile than pour forth thy grief — — Than in gushing tears pour forth all thy grief concerning thy fulness, and concerning the craving of the vine for the vintager and vintage – knife!

Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 2001

No, indeed my attempt at writing did not come off at all to-day; the composition of a hunter or a vintager, whose shouts are echoing through my chamber, hateful and wearisome as the law-courts.

Meditations Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

The brewer's cares are many, and of longer duration: he is the vintager of our northern climates: his porter or ale should be an agreeable malt wine, suited to the palate of the district or neighbourhood he lives in, or, ultimately, to the taste of his customers.

The American Practical Brewer and Tanner Joseph Coppinger

Observe with what indifference the people swallow the production of the distant vintager, the seaman and the vintner, as if it were a thing of course.

Chapter X. Book V 1917

Not so does the thrush pine when the olives are plucked, not so does the hare pine when the vintager has gathered the last grapes, as I, Lycidas, droop while I roam apart from my mistress Phyllis.

Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

VINDEMIATRIX, ε _Virginis_, "the vintager or grape gatherer."

A Field Book of the Stars William Tyler Olcott 1904

The sun, treading the earth like a vintager, drew from it heady fragrances, crushed out of it new colours.

The Custom of the Country Edith Wharton 1899

In the olive season he helped in the gathering; in grape season he offered himself as vintager.

Life of St. Francis of Assisi Paul Sabatier 1893