usquebaugh

Example Sentences

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Three drams of usquebaugh you drank with Dan Deasy's ducats.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

What is the world coming to when fresh beef and usquebaugh are crowded to the wall by bad-smelling water!

From The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm by Streeter, John Williams

"Oh! we maun send the Queen a stag, And grouse for her propine, And we'll send her a cask o' the usquebaugh, And a butt o' the red French wine!"

From New Collected Rhymes by Lang, Andrew

This, he explained, was usquebaugh, "ta watter of life," and the spice of poetry in the description tempted the Colonel and me to try a dram.

From The Yeoman Adventurer by Gough, George W.

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 Piozzi, Hester Lynch