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The earth and all its planetary kin, Starry buds tangled in the whirling hair That flames round the Phoebean wassailer, Speed no more ignorant, more predestined flight, Than I, HER viewless tresses netted in.

From Sister Songs; an offering to two sisters by Thompson, Francis

A heedless husbandman you must have been, a gambler or wassailer, to have brought yourself to this sorry pass.

From Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles

These words were afterwards corrupted into wassail and wassailer.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Johnson, Samuel

In fact, in the U Pinkasu beer hall Simonov had idly picked up a magazine left by some earlier wassailer.

From Freedom by Reynolds, Mack

Dispense with me—I am no wassailer: Command me in all service save the Bacchant's.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley