usquebaugh
Example Sentences
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He had oatcake in his sporran, and I a flask of usquebaugh.
From Audrey by Mary Johnston
Three drams of usquebaugh you drank with Dan Deasy's ducats.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
In Morewood's History of Inebriating Liquors, he gives a list of the ingredients used in the composition of usquebaugh, and none of these are Irish productions.
From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack
Our inn here is an excellent one, as far as I am concerned; and the sallad-oil green, like Irish usquebaugh, nothing was ever so excellent.
From Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I by Hester Lynch Piozzi
But her diseased mind required stronger stimulants, and sought them in gallantry, in basset, and in usquebaugh.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
