cherry-brandy

Clavering goes to sleep after dinner; the Begum gets tipsy with cherry-brandy, and the young lady sings songs to the young gentlemen.

The History of Pendennis 2006

Many young gentlemen canter up on thoroughbred hacks, spatter-dashed to the knee, and enter the house to drink cherry-brandy and pay their respects to the ladies, or, more modest and sportsmanlike, divest themselves of their mud-boots, exchange their hacks for their hunters, and warm their blood by a preliminary gallop round the lawn.

Vanity Fair 2006

In two hours we arrived at Canterbury, enveloped in clouds: lunch, bottled porter: at Dover, carried several miles in a tide of air, bitter cold, cherry-brandy; crossed over the Channel safely, and thought with pity of the poor people who were sickening in the steamboats below: more bottled porter: over Calais, dinner, roast-beef of Old England; near

The Paris Sketch Book 2006

As an ordinary rule, had the hunt thus drifted near his homestead, he would have been off his horse and down among his bottles, sending up sherry and cherry-brandy; and there would have been comfortable drink in plenty, and cold meat, perhaps, not in plenty; and every one would have been welcome in and out of the house.

Castle Richmond 2004

As for lunch, they would get a biscuit and glass of cherry-brandy at Wat

Castle Richmond 2004

Hungary-water bottle filled with cherry-brandy, recommending it as

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom 2004

“I am like the great poet who describes the snow; and I have got some cherry-brandy.”

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

In short spurts, while the cherry-brandy prevails, they often have small successes; but even with the assistance of a spur in the head they never like it.

Hunting Sketches 2004

Macassar sighed, and spilt some of his cherry-brandy over his shirt front.

The Three Clerks 2004

The cherry-brandy had already evaporated before the blaze of all that beauty, and he was bethinking himself how he might best take himself off.

The Three Clerks 2004