refreshmenters

Updated: May 12, 2025

I look upon us Refreshmenters as ockipying the only proudly independent footing on the Line. There's Papers, for instance, my honourable friend, if he will allow me to call him so, him as belongs to Smith's bookstall.

Charles Dickens - Mugby Junction

As for the eatables and drinkables habitually set forth upon the counter, by what he generally speaks of as the Refreshmenters, quoth the Boy at Mugby, in a naif confidence, addressed to you in your capacity at once as applicant and victim, "when you're telegraphed, you should see 'em begin to pitch the stale pastry into the plates, and chuck the sawdust sang-wiches under the glass covers, and get out the ha, ha! the sherry O, my eye, my eye! for your refreshment."

Charles Kent - Charles Dickens as a Reader