It was as if men who had dwelt long in civilian inertia, were wassailing deep again in the heady wine of a martial past, and were not yet ready to set aside their goblets of memory.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
Christmas Day is marked with a horn, which has reference to the custom of the Danes wassailing or drinking healths, "signifying to us, that this is the time we ought to rejoice and make merry."
"Old Church Lore"
William Andrews
He was vexed suspecting his guest of midnight wassailing, and went to inquire what villainy might be hatching.
"Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race"
Maud Isabel Ebbutt