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It might have drowned you. And I have eggs puffins' " "Ach!" "They are better than nothing, and I beat them up with cognac. But are you safe in the Race, Nance dear, even with those things?" "You cannot sink. If Bernel had only taken them! But he laughed at them, and now " He kissed her sobs away, but was full of anxiety at thought of her in the rushing darkness of the Race.
I will just lift our dazed friend into the victoria, and tell the cocher to give him a glass of cognac at the first cafe he comes to." This was done. Five minutes later, the first and second officers of the Aphrodite assisted their employer up the yacht's gangway. Leaving Tagg to explain to Stump what had happened, Royson took von Kerber to his cabin, and helped to remove his outer clothing.
They're both Irishmen, so they are, an' they're our sworn body-gyard, an' there ye have it. But, man, ye're not dhrinkin'. What 'il ye have? Here's port from Oporto pure none av yer vile Saxon compounds; likewise here's sherry from Xeres. Here's marsala an' maraschino. Here's champagne an' cognac. Here's also whiskey. What d'ye say, me lord? Is it whiskey? Divil a doubt!
Outside the station of Flinders' Bay, we came upon a small limpid stream, brawling over a rocky bed, which seemed a suitable place to refresh the inner man with a sandwich, and a thimble full of Cognac. Segars were then lighted, and, shouldering our game, we resumed our route.
Antoinette brought a bottle of cognac and two small glasses and sat down in an empty chair with her red hands crossed on her apron. Her eyes moved from Chrisfield to the Frenchman and back again. Chrisfield turned a little round in his chair and looked at the Frenchman, feeling in his eyes for a moment a glance of the man's yellowish-brown eyes.
"And you have done nothing to make you so; you have good reason to ridicule us. Only there is one thing I am afraid of, look you, that some day in lighting your pipe, you may set yourself on fire like a bowl of punch." Macquart, flattered, gave a sneering laugh. "Have your jest, have your jest, my boy! A glass of cognac is worth more than all your filthy drugs.
These delegates, meeting at Cognac in June, 1527, formally repudiated the cession, being opposed, they said, to the laws of the kingdom, to the rights of the king, who could not by his sole authority alienate any portion of his dominions, and to his coronation-oath, which superseded his oaths made at Madrid.
You'll set us up to a glass o' cognac, won't you, School Detachment?" Andrews sat very stiff in his chair, staring at them. "Yes," he said, "order up what you like." "Keep an eye on him, Handsome. You never can tell what this quiet kind's likely to pull off on you." Bill Huggis strode out of the room with heavy steps. In a moment he came back swinging a bottle of cognac in his hand.
In a few minutes all the ingredients were at hand; the rind, peeled carefully from all the lemons, was deposited with two tumblers full of finely powdered sugar in the bottom of the tureen; thereupon were poured instantly three pints of pale old Cognac; and these were left to steep, without admixture, until Tim Matlock made his entrance with the cold, strong, green tea; two quarts of this, strained clear, were added to the brandy, and then two flasks of curacoa!
"You are going to hear her talk now," whispered Favraud; "that is a sign equal to General Finistere's the snuffbox tapping, I mean. The oracle is beginning to arouse! Come! let me stir her further!" and he inclined his head before her. "I'll tell you what, madame, you must take a little cognac to keep off the chills of age.
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