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Several of the Indians, who were always ready for eating and drinking, took part in the celebration, and the settlers saw with pleasure that they did not like the sound of the cannon. They all "kept it up till after twelve o'clock at night, and then went home and slept till daylight."
"If you will give me the money in advance, so as to evade the ungenerous spirit of the no-treating law, you can stand me a quart of ale at the Crown and Sceptre and join me in drinking to its confusion." So they entered the saloon bar of the public-house. Doggie drank a glass of beer while Phineas swallowed a couple of pints.
The old man could be heard moving about in the next room, and planing or hammering, and talking to himself, calling himself an idiot, or singing in a loud voice, improvising a potpourri of scraps of chants and sentimental Lieder, warlike marches, and drinking songs. Here was shelter and refuge.
You see the reason we can choose between right and wrong when a tree can't, or a beast, is just because God's power of choice is in us and not in them. That's the law that makes the value of religion; I know it by the way I gave up drinking.
Appleton flung his cards into the middle of the table and turned away disgustedly. "It's a hard thing to prove, and I'm not absolutely sure I saw straight, or I'd take it back, fast enough." Denny shrugged and gathered in the discarded hand. "You've been drinking too much, that's all. Your eyesight is scattered."
"And note that Ireland still is and always will be a NATION. There is no Anglomania in that fair land, no yearning for reciprocity for the sake of a few dollars, no drinking of the Queen's health first.... "The English whipped the Irish at the battle of the Boyne true.
Quietly, and with moist eyes, the two or three drinking customers who had been lounging in the bar, went stealthily out; and the landlord, the stranger and the father and his child, were left the only inmates of the room. "Come, Lizzie, dear! This is no place for us," said Leslie, breaking the deep silence. "We'll go home."
If he had protested he had not been drinking, as most men in his circumstances would have done, then I should have opposed your engaging him, but he was so straightforward that he has certainly enlisted my sympathy in his favor; and then I really think God guided him here.
"But however much I thought about it, I could not understand the thing that the colonel knew. It was evening before I could get to sleep, and then only after calling on a friend and drinking till I; was quite drunk. "Do you think I had come to the conclusion that the deed I had witnessed was wicked? Oh, no.
He was sitting by the table under the awning of the steamer and drinking tea, together with Yefim and the receiver of the corn, a provincial clerk a redheaded, short-sighted gentleman in glasses.
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