brandy-faced

I could hear as well as see that brandy-faced rascal Israel Hands plumping down a round-shot on the deck.

Treasure Island 1883

I could hear, as well as see, that brandy-faced rascal, Israel Hands, plumping down a round shot on the deck.

Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

As for the girl, you can have her, Tom Trippet, if you take a fancy to her; and as for the Corporal, he may be handed over to my successor in Cutts's: -- for I will have a regiment to myself, that's poz; and to take with me such a swindling, pimping, thieving, brandy-faced rascal as this Brock will never do.

Catherine: a Story William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

Lion, where a brandy-faced blacksmith of a landlord used to emerge from the adjoining smithy, to take charge of any one who might arrive per coach for that part of the country.

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833

He had no objection, either, to holding the reins in a wagon behind another kind of horse, -- a slouching, listless beast, with a strong slant to his shoulder and a notable depth to his quarter and an emphatic angle at the hock, who commonly walked or lounged along in a lazy trot of five or six miles an hour; but, if a lively colt happened to come rattling up alongside, or a brandy-faced old horse-jockey took the road to show off

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 Various

He had no objection, either, to holding the reins in a wagon behind another kind of horse, -- a slouching, listless beast, with a strong slant to his shoulder; and a notable depth to his quarter and an emphatic angle at the hock, who commonly walked or lounged along in a lazy trot of five or six miles an hour; but, if a lively colt happened to come rattling up alongside, or a brandy-faced old horse-jockey took the road to show off

Elsie Venner Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

As we neared, all hats were off, and three cheers -- or at least as many as we could wedge in during the time the cortège took to sweep past us -- were given, our band consisting of three brandy-faced musicians, striking up _God save the King_ -- a compliment which Her Majesty acknowledged by a little mandarining; and before the majority of the passengers had recovered from the astonishment produced by meeting a live Queen on the Thames, the whole fleet had shot out of sight.

Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities Robert Smith Surtees 1833