usquebaugh

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Manus rubbed his eyes and looked right and left, before and behind; and there were the vessels of gold and the vessels of silver, the dishes, and the plates, and the cups, and the punch-bowls, and the tankards: there was the golden mether, too, that every Thierna at his wedding used to drink out of to the kerne in real usquebaugh.

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To make verses to the widow, on the other hand, came as easy as sipping usquebaugh or metheglin.

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Lorge dates from the iron period; not the time of prehistoric man, who had recently blossomed out of monkeydom, but of the early medi�val barons, who slept in their armour--as they still do on their tombs--whose pet pastimes were the cleaving of pates and the quaffing of usquebaugh.

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They plodded on from year to year, increased their stock of goods, and added many a round dollar to their worldly wealth, and then sat down contentedly to enjoy the smoky flavour of their usquebaugh, forming no greater acquaintance with the governor, than as they saw him proceed to the court-house in discharge of his high office, or knowing no more of government-house than the outer appearance.

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See you the mountains look huge at eve— So is our chieftain in battle; Welcome he has for the fugitive, Usquebaugh, fighting and cattle!

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