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Ham, beef, tongue, pâté de foie gras, potted shrimps, and cetera. Juice of the grape. He pointed to the basket, which his attendant had already laid upon the stage. 'Fizzy, Pommery-Gréno, and no less, upon my sacred word of honour! He groped in his pockets. 'Champagne-opener, to be carefully returned to bearer.
He included the remainder with a wave of his hand, and Sir William acknowledged the informal general introduction with the grave, smiling self-possession of the perfectly bred Englishman. "Now," said his nephew, "what about a cocktail, Uncle Bill?" "Yes," said Mouldy Jakes, sharing with his friend the responsibility of entertaining this eminent guest. "We've got rather a good brand fizzy ones.
'I don't think you'd care about the sons of the Phoenix, really, said Robert. 'I have heard that they don't do anything fiery. They only drink a great deal. Much more than other people, because they drink lemonade and fizzy things, and the more you drink of those the more good you get. 'In your mind, perhaps, said Jane; 'but it wouldn't be good in your body. You'd get too balloony.
"You've had the kiddie long enough now," he urged. "Let me have him. Come here, Mr. Mars, and sit beside me, and I'll give you fizzy water like lemon-squash, only nicer." He held out a wet bottle of champagne alluringly. "No, he is coming to his consul," that youth declared. "He's coming to his consul for protection. You are not fit characters to associate with an innocent child.
I had taken many a jaunt in the old car, with Crom, and Rankin, and Tony, the best cook that ever fed a hungry man, and it seemed like coming home just to throw myself into my pet chair again, with Crom to fetch me something cold and fizzy.
"You see, Cherokee had this Christmas mess already bought and paid for; and he was all flattered up with self-esteem over his idea; and we had in a way flew the flume with that fizzy wine I speak of; so I never let on."
Drunkenly, through a red cloud of mist, he heard himself shouting, "The BLACK nigger! The BLACK NIGGER! He touched me! I TELL you, he touched me!" Captain Nansen led Everett to his cot and gave him fizzy salts, but it was not until sundown that the trembling and nausea ceased. Then, partly in shame, partly as a bribe, he sought out the injured boy and gave him the entire roll of cloth.
They didn't take 'em easy, an' was nigh sick, but they got 'em down after awhile. Then, seein' they got bruises on their legs, playin', I rubbed 'em good with hoss lin'ment. After that I give 'em some o' that tonic quinine an' something. An' then, seein' they couldn't eat food this mornin', an' had got sick headaches, I give 'em one o' them fizzy Seidlitz fellers between 'em.
"We should be about here," he indicated, touching the paper, "I'll go ahead and take a look." "Shan't I go with you?" "Better stay quiet and get all the rest you can." He was gone some twenty minutes. "There's a big, fresh-looking split-off in the opposite bank," he reported; "and the water looks fizzy and whirly around there. I think we'll give her a little time to settle.
His was not the standardised and habituated kind of musical culture which takes a Bach prelude and fugue every morning before breakfast with or without a glass of Lithia water or fizzy saline. He did, however, customarily begin the day at the piano, and on this particular morning he happened to play a Bach prelude and fugue.
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