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It would be greatly for the benefit of my cellar if she could teach her coadjutor, Mac-Murrough, the value of its influence: he has just drunk a pint of usquebaugh to correct, he said, the coldness of the claret. Let me try its virtues. He sipped a little water in the hollow of his hand, and immediately commenced, with a theatrical air, 'O Lady of the desert, hail!
The surgeon scorning all their legends, Griffith and Neville made hasty rushes with brandy and usquebaugh; but whether to be taken internally or externally they did not say, nor, indeed, know, but only thrust their flasks wildly on the doctor; and he declined them loftily. He melted snow in his hand, and dashed it hard in her face, and put salts close to her pretty little nostrils.
A yearly intercourse took place, of a short letter and a hamper or a cask or two, between Waverley-Honour and Tully-Veolan, the English exports consisting of mighty cheeses and mightier ale, pheasants, and venison, and the Scottish returns being vested in grouse, white hares, pickled salmon, and usquebaugh; all which were meant, sent, and received as pledges of constant friendship and amity between two important houses.
In this public whar we are gaun to, and whar it is like we may hae to stay a' night, men o' a' clans and kindred Hieland and Lawland tak up their quarters And whiles there are mair drawn dirks than open Bibles amang them, when the usquebaugh gets uppermost.
This remarkable dish, which inspired the poet Burns with one of his best odes, shared the fate of all the good things in this world it passed away like a dream. Madge received the sincere compliments of her guest. The dinner ended with cheese and oatcake, accompanied by a few small glasses of "usquebaugh," capital whisky, five and twenty years old just Harry's age. The repast lasted a good hour.
Rochester and Godolphin sometimes forgot the cares of state in her company. Barillon and Saint Evremond found in her drawing room consolation for their long banishment from Paris. The learning of Vossius, the wit of Waller, were daily employed to flatter and amuse her. But her diseased mind required stronger stimulants, and sought them in gallantry, in basset, and in usquebaugh.
Youth is the greatest luck in the world, and I'll not copper it." And then our sporting friend grew reminiscent and told of a time at Limmer's when the marquis and he occupied beds in the same room, not unlike our boys' room only smoky and dingy and poulticed their battered faces with beef, and used usquebaugh inside and outside, after ten friendly rounds.
"Eh! confound me, philosopher, your hand," he exclaimed, putting out his own to shake hands with him. "I can't, sir," replied Cooke; "I am afflicted with rheumatism. You seem unwell, captain; but if you gave up spirituous liquors such as wine and usquebaugh you would find yourself the better for it." "What does all this mean?" asked Manifold. "At all events Doolittle's a rat.
"I would rather sleep on the fresh heather, as I have done many a night on less occasion," said Roland Graeme, "than in the smoky garret of your father, that smells of peat smoke and usquebaugh like a Highlander's plaid." "You may choose, my master, if you are so nice," replied Ralph Fisher; "you may be glad to smell a peat-fire, and usquebaugh too, if you journey long in the fashion you propose.
It would be greatly for the benefit of my cellar if she could teach her coadjutor, Mac-Murrough, the value of its influence: he has just drunk a pint of usquebaugh to correct, he said, the coldness of the claret. Let me try its virtues. He sipped a little water in the hollow of his hand, and immediately commenced, with a theatrical air, 'O Lady of the desert, hail!
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