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• Hence the proverb [...] "to reduce one whose meal is a winesop to a dry crust."
• Beatriz, for all her seeming frailty, had borne the long strain better, and presently came, offering winesops, the recognised restorative; small pieces of fine white bread soaked in wine.
• His wife gave her a winesop to eat and after, undressing her, put her to bed; and they contrived that night to have her and her maid carried to Florence.
• Winesops
• 1 cup butter
• 1 1.2 cups brown sugar, firmly packed
• 1 cup molasses
• [...]
• 1 cup currants
• "I'm going to give you Mr. Whish — or the winesop that remains of him," continued Attwater.
• [...] "we're being maneuvered into providing a gala State funeral for that reprobate winesop."
• "Aye, he was good at skulking around and acting like a winesop or an idiot."