"Alcoholic beverage" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... state of Wisconsin, from which Mr. Middleton hailed, there is a great deal of the alcoholic beverage, beer, but such champagne as is to be found there is all due to importation, since it is not native to the soil, but is brought in at great expense from France, La Belle France, and New Jersey, La Belle New Jersey. Mr. Middleton had seen, smelled, ...
— The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton • Wardon Allan Curtis
... English reader will hardly be able to avoid acquiring a knowledge of their meaning," his alarm is quite unnecessary. Personally, at any rate, I am proud to know that papa-tea means an untattooed person, and waipiro an alcoholic beverage. But if Mr. SATCHELL had feared that the young man who tells the story might be found a little too self-complacent no protest would have been sounded by me. For Cedric Tregarthen, the grandson of an earl, and also "The Little Finger" of a Maori chief, was beyond ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914 • Various |
