Which preposition to use with brandy
When he came back, with the bag hitched under his arm, a decanter of brandy in one band and a glass in the other, Mary was leaning over the throne, with her arm round the old man.
"Boy, a pony of brandy for Mr. Slade.
The next minute she laughed in her childish fashion, as she put the brandy to his lips, and the color came to his face.
Pour some brandy into his mouth while I hold the ice aside.
I was going to offer him, but some brandy from the tray, and swallowed it almost undiluted.
Then, I poured a little of the brandy between her lips.
If there is brandy at hand, the fingers before rubbing may be dipped into that, or any other spirit. 2462.
The celebrated brandy of Cognac, a town in the department of Charente, and that brought from Andraye, seem to owe their excellence from being made from white wine.
In such a circumstance the rejected little one may be discreetly removed, and a drop of brandy on the point of the finger smeared upon its tongue may revive animation, or it may be plunged up to the neck in warm water.
Hannah had frequently been surprised by her husband's frequent potations of brandy during their journey, and his whole bearing had been haughty and reserved.
Mix the brandy with the orange-juice, strained, the rinds of 6 of the oranges pared very thin, and the sugar.
Van Bibber put on his great-coat and told the man to bring around the dog-cart; then he filled his pockets with cigars and placed a flask of brandy under the seat, and wrapped the robes around his knees.
When at last I succeeded in pouring a little brandy down his throat, he sat up and looked about him wildly.
The retail of the brandy by officials, who are paid by a percentage on the consumption, did a good deal to injure the popular respect for the government.
Mr. Coxwell informed me that he had lost the use of his hands, which were black, and I poured brandy over them.
You need wear no gloves, and may drink your soda-and-brandy without being ashamed of it.
"Shouldn't wonder," answered Cap, which was a short name for Captain (nobody knew of what), and added, without any apparent sequence of ideas: "I s'pose you're goin' to take some brandy along, old fellow?
In Little Russia it is customary to barricade the door of the bride's house with a wheel, but after offering a bottle of brandy as a "pass" the suitor's party is allowed to enter.
Tea was going like chaff, and brandy like well-water.
He used to drink brandy out of it.
And Gerard, it is to be feared, took a little more brandy than usual in honour of his young friend's adventures in the capital.
They got the brandy through "Billy."
He drank brandy after brandy, vainly seeking to dull the nausea of disgust which had stricken his worn nerves; but the adulterated spirit merely maddened his brain with the vision of new depths of horror, while his body lay below, a mean, detestable thing.