At intervals of fifteen minutes the curtain is dropped to enable the actors to discuss mugs of beer and the audience to discuss the actors.

This girl was not so vivacious as Sally, but she had a mug on her that was a lot less ugly to look at.

You haven't gone out for a stroll with your mug in a sable cloak yet, have you?

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.

The gentleman had got about half a dozen yards of string, a knife, three or four sheets of writing-paper, folded up surprising small, a orange, and a Chaney mug with his name upon it.

The other man, nothing loth, raised the mug to his lips, and drank on, and on, and ontill a curious blueness overspread the countenance of the shepherd's wife, who had regarded with no little surprise the first stranger's free offer to the second of what did not belong to him to dispense.

But, sir, if they served me in that manner, I would cover the ground with broken crockery by smashin' their old Chiny mugs for 'em.

He tossed the mug into Joel's lap.

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.

The bottles and mugs from which the men had drunk their whisky were scattered about; and all over the place were the candles, stuck upright in their own grease.

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.

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

Crime also increased the mugging of tourists, either on desolate stretches of beach or in their insecure dwellings, became more and more widespread.

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

He called for a pot o' ale and drank it nearly off, and then 'e sat gasping and 'olding the mug between 'is legs and shaking 'is 'ead at the floor till everybody 'ad left off talking to look at 'im. "'Wot's the matter, Henery?' ses one of 'em.

The sage seized a mug of beer with his teeth, quaffed the liquor, and then tossed the mug over his head.

He sat near the front of his cage mugging at tourists, carrying on, drawing them closer as they took pictures.

" The painter smiled and pushed his mug across the table.