152 Verbs to Use for the Word draught

She felt in the pocket of her dress and drew it out, taking a long, deep draught of the fiery spirit.

Meanwhile the two little sympathizing companions toiled up the steep hill, drinking in with every inhalation of the balmy air copious draughts of the new-found elixir of life.

Some 'deaf and viperous murderer' gave him the envenomed draught.

While yelling he swallows great draughts of lung-expanding, purifying air and forgets the fear of "taking cold.

The silence was instantly broken by a whistle the shrillest and loudest I had ever heard; the dense compressed atmosphere of the Astronaut rushing out with a force which actually created a draught through the whole vessel, to the great discomfiture of the birds, which roughed their feathers and fluttered about in dismay.

"You are entitled to ask and I have brought a short draught of the arrangements I am ready to make if I am fortunate enough to win your daughter.

In one deep breath He drains the hero's draught that burns With valour of the gods; then turns His long-sought foe to meet ...

Rosa and Linda divided the hours into watches, and administered the draughts prepared by the stewards.

Outside the public-houses were parties smoking, drinking, playing draughts and cards, and (once) dancing.

Even while quaffing the third draught of the Fountain of Youth, they were almost awed by the expression of his mysterious visage.

It was a still, hot, heavy night, after long easterly drought; sheet- lightning glimmered on the far horizon over the dark woodlands; the coming shower had sent forward as his herald a whispering draught of fragrant air.

" "It is coming now," said Frank Elliott suddenly; "I certainly feel a draught.

Nay, I beseech thee, sweeten the draught with thy lips (here he passed the flask from his right hand to his left).

Windows and doors were all securely closed, so as to prevent draught, for nothing is so bad as draught when you are hot, and nothing makes you so hot as being stived by hundreds in a narrow space without draught.

Thereupon the nurse held the child up and the Queen looked at him, though she could hardly see him because it was as though a mist lay upon her eyes which she could not clear away from her sight; for at that time she was drawing deep draughts of death.

The thing swayed up and down, backwards and forwards like a great loose curtain in the wind, and I could only vaguely surmise what caused the draught or why there was a curtain at all.

To obtain such a draught in locomotives, it is necessary to contract the mouth of the blast pipe, whereby the waste steam will be projected into the chimney with greater force; but this contraction involves an increase of the pressure on the eduction side of the piston, and consequently causes a diminution in the power of the engine.

So, whiles Beltane stared dreamily upon the twilit river, Sir Fidelis hasted up the bank and was back again, the wallet by his side, whence he took a phial and goblet and mixed therein a draught which dreamy Beltane perforce must swallow, and thereafter the dreamy languor fell from him, what time Sir Fidelis fell to bathing and bandaging the ugly gash that showed beneath his knee.

Two dainty hands prepare the draught, While loving glances meet my own; Two lips repeat (the coffee quaffed), "To-night 'tis sweet to be alone.

It is seldom that one of the windows cannot be let down an inch or more at the top, a screen being arranged to avoid any draught on the patient.

The place was horribly in need of sunshine and fresh airand the old gentleman was no longer alive to fear the draught!

MARMADUKE A minute past, he went to fetch a draught Of water from the torrent.

In locomotive engines the eduction pipe passes into the chimney and the force of the issuing steam has the effect of maintaining a rapid draught through the furnace as before explained.

'And, therefore, I am the wiser, in forcing the draught on myself.' 'Provided it be the right draught, and do not require another and still bitterer one to expel the effects of the poison.

" "You'd find it correct this draught"; and the priest explained his views on the subject while Potts's letter was being addressed.

152 Verbs to Use for the Word  draught