plum-brandy

Updated: May 3, 2025

For, I tell you this," and he fumbled for a scrap of paper in his ragged trousers pocket, "it is billiards that leads on to a dram and plum-brandy. It is ruinous, like all fine things, in the things it leads to. I know your orders, but the old 'un is in such a quandary that I came on to forbidden grounds. If the hair was all hair, we might sleep sound on it; but it is mixed.

Honoré de Balzac - Cousin Betty

I was rather afraid my Wallack was indulging too freely in slivovitz otherwise plum-brandy a special weakness of theirs; but after an intolerable delay we got off at last. Soon after leaving the town we came upon an encampment of gipsies; their tents looked picturesque enough in the distance, but on nearer approach the illusion was entirely dispelled.

Andrew F. Crosse - Round About the Carpathians

For, I tell you this," and he fumbled for a scrap of paper in his ragged trousers pocket, "it is billiards that leads on to a dram and plum-brandy. It is ruinous, like all fine things, in the things it leads to. I know your orders, but the old 'un is in such a quandary that I came on to forbidden grounds. If the hair was all hair, we might sleep sound on it; but it is mixed.

Honoré de Balzac - Poor Relations