" Stafford stared at his claret glass.

It was Copley Banks who captured the Liverpool ship, House of Hanover, but it was Sharkey who fastened her master to the windlass and pelted him to death with empty claret-bottles.

There had been some rain and the water was stained a warm claret-color by the peat.

Williamsthe butleris famous for his claret-cup.

Claret and burgundy are handed round in a claret-jug.

All this had such a moral effect on the young that the soda fountain didn't sell a claret phosphate for three weeks after.

Thus Fergusson, in one of his poems, in describing a dinner, says "The grace is said; it's nae ower lang, The claret reams in bells.

If situated in the face, however, they frequently cause great disfigurement, as the claret-stain, which may be seen sometimes to occupy nearly half the face.

The portrait is excellent: A snow white head a merry eye, A cheek of jolly blush; A claret tint laid on by health, With master reynard's brush.

It is also full of juice, which resembles in colour claret wine.

We went through some of the cellars to-day, as venerable and vast as the claret cellars in Bordeaux, although not quite as interesting, perhaps, because not so "alive."

I have chosen your coat, a claret colour, to suit the complexion of the country you are going to visit; but I have fixed nothing about the lace.

I often wonder what he thinks We ask him here to do Coolly he Cockburn's claret drinks, And wins from me at Loo.

He embodied his anger in the following epigram: "Firm and erect the Caledonian stood, Old was his mutton, and his claret good; 'Let him drink port,' an English statesman cried He drank the poison, and his spirit died.