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Certain wines are taken with certain dishes, by old-established custom as sherry, or sauterne, with soup and fish; hock and claret with roast meat; punch with turtle; champagne with whitebait; port with venison; port, or burgundy, with game; sparkling wines between the roast and the confectionery; madeira with sweets; port with cheese; and for dessert, port, tokay, madeira, sherry, and claret.
Even on Sebastian's pale face, usually so unmoved, save by the watchful eagerness of scientific curiosity, I saw signs of anxiety. After four hours of profound slumber breath hovering, as it seemed, between life and death she began to come to again. In half an hour more she was wide awake; she opened her eyes and asked for a glass of hock, with beef essence or oysters.
Dominey rang the bell, ordered hock and seltzer and ice. Seaman drank and threw himself into an easy-chair. "There is no fear of your being called out of the country because of that, I hope?" he asked a little anxiously, nodding his head towards his companion's uniform. "Not at present," Dominey answered. "I am a trifle over age to go with the first batch or two. Where have you been?"
Hock flung himself down to be curled: Mr. Bar suddenly opened his mouth in order to reply; but seeing there was a tiff between the gentlemen, and wanting to prevent a quarrel, I rammed the Advertiser into Mr. Hock's hands, and just popped my shaving-brush into Mr. Bar's mouth a capital way to stop angry answers. Mr.
"On hearing this, Gretchen, the landlady, the apothecary, the hostler, and the stable-boy not the cobbler, you may be sure burst forth with cries of: 'Hip! Hip! Hock! Donder und Blitzen! or whatever they do yell when they are mad with joy. "Then the landlady broke out in a fresh place: 'No public-house for you! This is my treat! All of you come inside.
By 1908 I had already arrived at a point where I could be definitely considering a transfer of my political allegiance. These abstract questions are inseparably interwoven with my memory of a shining long white table, and our hock bottles and burgundy bottles, and bottles of Perrier and St.
In fact, it appeared to me that we used to do all our compound cookery between our jaws. The dessert generally ordered at Messrs. Grange's, or at Owen's, in Bond Street if for a dozen people, would cost at least as many pounds. The wines were chiefly port, sherry, and hock; claret, and even Burgundy, being then designated "poor, thin, washy stuff."
Cutlets with sauce piquant and pigeon pie, salad such as Malcolm loved, and a delicate pudding which seemed nothing but froth and sweets, while an excellent bottle of hock, sent up by Anderson, completed the repast. "I wish mother could have joined us," observed Anna regretfully; "I did my best to persuade her, but she said there was no time.
My immediate destination was the Hock, but we went no nearer than Algeciras, the town on the opposite side of the bay, off which Saumarez gave such a stern account of the Spanish and French combined on the 12th of July, 1801. The sea was without a ripple. The bright coasts of two Continents were in view. On such a day as this the first adventurers must have crossed from Africa to Europe.
It was not altogether unpalatable, something like light but rather sweet hock; very different, however, in its effects to that innocent beverage, and one could not drink much with impunity. Its cheapness surprised me: one shilling a quart bottle. That, at least, is the price our host charged probably more than half again its real value.
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