He wanted to kiss me, because he said we were cousins, but I did not like the smell of the brandy, so I would not let him.

" Another five minutes, and Elsley rang the bell violently for hot brandy-and-water.

" "As sure as you live, sir," said Tom, "if you won't talk honest prose, I won't pay for the brandy and water.

And Campbell threw down the money, and led him off, after he had gulped down his own brandy, and half Tom's beside.

"Mr. Barker," said Tom blandly, "will you have another glass of brandy and water, or shall I call a policeman?" "Sir," sputtered he, speaking prose at last, "this gentleman has insulted me!

It was into trenches half filled with water that the new men were goingFrenchmen trundling over to the bar in big overcoats, with their air of good little boy, to go galloping back with a bottle of red wine and a long loaf of bread; Englishmen, noisy, laughing, trying to talk French with their fingers and wanting a nip of brandy or hot water for their tea.

I cannot undertake to recite all her medicinal Preparations, as Salves, Cerecloths, Powders, Confects, Cordials, Ratafia, Persico, Orange-flower, and Cherry-Brandy, together with innumerable sorts of Simple Waters.

No wonder the babies of the Moroccan ghettos are nursed on date-brandy, and their elders doze away to death under its consoling spell.

Meanwhile fiery brandy or sweet champagne would probably be passed around between the steaming glasses of mint-tea which the slaves perpetually refilled; or perhaps the sultry air, the heavy meal, the scent of the garden and the vertiginous repetition of the music would suffice to plunge these sedentary worthies into the delicious coma in which every festive evening in Morocco ends.

Whenever I visited Philippe, that stately man of the Hurons would usher me into a little parlor with a sofa in it and a carpet on the floor; he would produce brandy in a cut decanter, and cake upon a good porcelain plate, and would be merry in French and expansive on the subject of trade.

He seemed to have taken particularly fast hold of the memory of the old Huron, who described him as a tremendous-looking, big person, with large black whiskers, and remembered having enjoyed a long pull at a brandy-flask carried by him.

The bill of fare was to be simple: one brought a pig, and another some brandy, giving to the meeting an aspect so cheaply convivial that no one would have imagined it to be the final consummation of a conspiracy which had been for six months in preparation.

Having a desperate sore head, our wife, poor body, put a thimbleful of brandy into my first cup of tea which had a wonderful virtue in putting all things to rights.

On my arrival, being rather hungry, I made a modest request for a little brandy and some biscuits; fancy my astonishment when the "help" said, "I guess we only give meals at the fixed hours.

The captain also took care to carry with them a flask of brandy.

It was not till after he had swallowed a dram of brandy that he found his voice, and said: "We've the deaul himsel' in t' house!

The sweeper and his friends were holding a meeting for the purpose of conversation and the consumption of apple brandy.

Next morning Sabz Ali came to me in a towering rage to report that the sweeperthat unclean outcasthad dared to say most opprobrious things to him, being inspired thereto by the devil and apple brandy.

Eggs, fowls, cherry brandy, and spirits of wine are "off," also butter, but the latter scarcity does not affect us, as we make our own in a pickle jar.

Vehicles of many and strange sorts were drawn up in the shade of a chenar, under whose wide branches the Baines family was faring sumptuously on biscuits and brandy and water.

The mistress suggested that a nip of brandy might improve it, thinking that tea was hardly strong enough for a man.

There seemed to be but one thing to do, and so, halting, I fumbled in the bottom of the cart and brought forth a handful of dry straw, and my precious bottle of brandy.

will you leave my house?" "Have you any good old brandy on hand?" asked Chiffield.

If you want brandy, sir, go to the d-l for it.

I read a case in the paper the other day of a little child in a workhouse that had learnt a lot of infamous language, and cursed and swore if it was given milk instead of beer or brandy.