The General lifted his right arm in the attitude of the orator about to make a telling hit, but he was hampered by having a mug at his lips.

Your very good health, little boy," and here he jingled his mug against Martin's, and took a sip of tea.

There was not the ghost of a farthing candle, nor a herring, nor a marble, nor a match, nor of any other thing, sour or sweet, eatable or saleable for other uses, except one small mug full of buttermilk up in a cornerthe last relic of a departed trade, like the "one rose of the wilderness, left on its stalk to mark where a garden has been."

Her mug was standing upon a stool in the middle of the floor; and there was not any other thing in the place in the shape of furniture or household utensil.

I was just gettin' the mug ready for that same, whenever ye wor comin' into the yard, I was.

" The man smiled obsequiously as he set the foaming mug before him.

Others indulge freely in gin and milk, and get boozy, while agin some others histe in mug after mug of lager beer, and then lay in with some Bohemian to rite 'em up.

Others indulge freely in gin and milk, and get boozy, while agin some others histe in mug after mug of lager beer, and then lay in with some Bohemian to rite 'em up.

and I never thought of him bein' here until I noticed the look on that ugly mug of his, and mind you, Da, there's people that call him good-lookin' with that heavy jowl of his and the hair on him growin' the wrong way on his head, and them black eyes of his the color of the dirt in the road.

And while she handed a little silver mug, from which it was intended they should drink while taking their snack, she had noticed that the child raised his head and followed the movement of her hand, in which the silver sparkled beneath the sun-rays.

" Blaise and Denis made answer by taking some fresh slices of bread-and-butter, while Rose drained the mug of wine and water which Ambroise handed her.

I'll wash thy stammering throat with a mug of ale merrily.

Robert did so, and handed the stranger a drink from an earthen mug, which was kept by the town pump for the accommodation of the public.

After drinking, the old man returned the mug and, fixing his eyes on the young man, asked: "Have you lived long in Virginia?" "I was born here, good sir.

Butter and cheese will not please; I will bring with me a bag of dried apples and a mug of vinegar to drink."

He was fast passing away, and with him the old-class ministers, now only traditional, who drank their half-mug of flip at funerals, went to balls to look benignantly on the scene of pleasure, came home at ten o'clock to write "the improvement" to their Sunday's sermon, took the other half-mug, and went to bed peaceably and in charity with the whole parish.

Then Peggotty showed me the completest little bedroom ever seen, in the stern of the vessel, with a tiny bed, a little looking-glass framed in oyster-shells, and a nosegay of seaweed in a blue mug on the table.

Estella came back with some bread and meat and a little mug of beer which she set down as insolently as if I were a dog in disgrace.

Why is it that kind of a face is always wearing the sables and diamonds?" "Sables and diamonds," replied Sadie Corn, sniffing essence of peppermint, "seem a small enough reward for having to carry round a mug like that!" Julia came round to the front of Sadie Corn's desk.

When I am birthed in one of your inner cabins, with a mug of flip and a kid of good Rhode Island beef within grappling distance, why, as many questions as you choose, and as many answers, you know, as suits my appetite.

"Honest Joe Joram always makes a friend of his butcher," he said, after ending a draught that threatened to drain the mug to the bottom.

Then, indeed, the American German emerged from silence and obscurity, but only to rescue his mug and retire again with it into enigmatical silence.

The coxswain, big Tom Tingle, fished him out a suit of lammies, the warm gray woollen garments which are the regular cold weather wear of the British Navy, and, as soon as he had got into them, put a mug of steaming cocoa into his hands.

It's only a pair o' crutches for lame ducks, and ask us no questions mind, and we'll tell ye no lies; and come here and sit down, and drink a mug o' beer before ye go to your bed.'

That is no test of Learningand any fool who has not troubled to mug his book by heart might be able to answer such questions, while the man who had learnt every letter sat dumb.