Everybody sitsdown with us on Christmas Eve, as you see them now--servants and all;and here we wait, until the clock strikes twelve, to usher Christmasin, and beguile the time with forfeits and old stories.
( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'But my song I troll out, for CHRISTMAS Stout, The hearty, the true, and the bold; A bumper I drain, and with might and main Give three cheers for this Christmas old! We'll usher him in with a merry din That shall gladden his joyous heart, And we'll keep him up, while there's bite or sup, And in fellowship good, we'll part.
( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) The nearest usher called for Elizabeth Tuppins; another one, at alittle distance off, demanded Elizabeth Jupkins; and a third rushed ina breathless state into King Street, and screamed for Elizabeth Muffinstill he was hoarse.
But as the usher didn't find the person, he didn't bring him; and,after a great commotion, all the people who had got up to look for theculprit, sat down again.