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"Cork" Quotes from Famous Books

... remains that on the appointed night the chosen troupe, approximately word-perfect, and with spirits something chastened by stage fright, were assembled in the clerk's room of the Enniscar Town Hall, round a large basin filled horribly with a compound of burnt cork and water. ...

— All on the Irish Shore - Irish Sketches • E. Somerville and Martin Ross

... wiser. Professors of rhetoric, no doubt, must have such discussions; but when you wish to be amused by the thing itself, it is somewhat disappointing to be presented with metaphysical analysis. It is like instituting an examination of the glass and cork of a champagne bottle, and a chemical testing of the wine. In the very process the volatile and sparkling draught which was to delight the palate has become like ditch water, vapid and dead. What I mean is, that, call it wit or humour, ...

— Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character • Edward Bannerman Ramsay

... Leland is characterised in the "Critical Review" for April, 1765, as the work of "a preferment-hunting toad-eater, who, while his patron happened to go out of his depth, tells him that he is treading good ground; but at the same time offers him the use of a cork-jacket to ...

— Calamities and Quarrels of Authors • Isaac D'Israeli

... do I know about poteen, is it? How dare you, sir? Was there a better maker of poteen in the County Cork than my own ...

— Duty, and other Irish Comedies • Seumas O'Brien

... said Paul. He had outlined her in charcoal and burnt cork, and it would be too dark to do any ...

— The Holiday Round • A. A. Milne

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