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He recalled it on passing an eating-house or tavern, and felt that he was hungry.... Going into the tavern he drank a glass of vodka and ate a pie of some sort. He finished eating it as he walked away. It was a long while since he had taken vodka and it had an effect upon him at once, though he only drank a wineglassful. His legs felt suddenly heavy and a great drowsiness came upon him.
Every two hours she was to take a spoonful of cod-liver oil, and before each meal a wineglassful of the essence of distilled cuttlefish. The plaster she didn't mind, but the blister and the cod-liver oil were terrible; and when it came to the essence of distilled cuttlefish well, she just couldn't stand it!
He will not save himself and he does not care, he does not care neither for me nor you!" She drooped her head against Morgana's shoulder and her eyes closed in utter exhaustion. Morgana laid her back gently on her pillows, and pouring a few drops of the cordial she had used before, and of which she had the sole secret, into a wineglassful of water, held it to her lips.
"Thank you," she said in a voice that was little above a whisper. "How easily you carried me. It's plain to see you're a married man." William started. "There you're wrong, ma'am, pardon me for sayin' it." "No? You were so gentle: so gentle although so big" she smiled faintly. "Would you mind stepping to the cupboard there and pouring me out a wineglassful of sherry?
They brought the bottle over, and poured out a wineglassful, and handed it to him, making signs that he should drink it off quickly. "Ah!" said my friend to himself, as he took the glass and raised it to the light, and winked at it wickedly, "this is some rare old spirit peculiar to the district some old heirloom kept specially for the favoured guest."
The drinking is a desperate effort to dilute these juices; and, at least by cold water, that cannot be done. A wineglassful of hot water taken every ten minutes for an hour, or two hours, or three, or ten hours, as is felt to be comfortable, will do wonders in the early stages of this disease.
Take a quarter of a pound of ripe, dark Roquefort cheese and rub with a piece of butter the size of a walnut until smooth, adding a teaspoonful of Worcestershire sauce and a wineglassful of sherry, with a pinch of paprika, rubbing until it is smooth. This is best mixed in shallow bowl or soup plate. Virginia Egg Nog Beat separately the yolks and whites of ten eggs, the yolks to a soft cream.
Horncastle furled her parasol and laid it aside; raised both hands to the back of her head and took two hat-pins out, which she placed in her smiling mouth; removed her hat, stuck the hat-pins in it, and handed it to Barker, who gently placed it on the top of a tall reed, where during the rest of that momentous meeting it swung and drooped like a flower; removed her gloves slowly; drank still smilingly and gratefully nearly a wineglassful of the water which Barker brought her in the green twisted chalice of a lily leaf; looked the picture of happiness, and then burst into tears.
Well, now, since you know the road, let us take a walk after breakfast. It shall be a beautiful clear day not a speck or cloud in the heavens. Mary is with me. "Well, Tom," says she, "you were very sentimental last evening." "Sentimental! I was deucedly sick, let me tell you a wineglassful of cold catchup is rather trying even to a lover's stomach, Mary.
Peter was dragged away, still struggling fiercely. "Tie them up!" Bernadine gasped, swaying in his chair. "Tie them up, do you hear? Carl, give me brandy." He swallowed half a wineglassful of the raw spirit. His eyes were red with fury. "Take them to the gun-room," he ordered, "three of you to each of them, mind. I'll shoot the man who lets either escape."
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