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Sixty-Third had some reckless members, who frequently took a "dhrop" too much.
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[Illustration: "Come down to Mrs. Haley's -- there isn't a better dhrop betune this and Dublin." (p. 452.)] [Illustration: "Come on, you ruffian!"]
My New Curate P.A. Sheehan
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"I'd like fur ye tu dhrop in agin, thin," continued the sergeant slowly,
The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Ralph S. Kendall
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If yez du not dhrop onto um betune thim tu places -- shtay fwhere yez are an 'search all freights.
The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Ralph S. Kendall
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I knew him by raison of a fancy that took me wan day for a dhrop o 'brandy.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 5, 1919 Various
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He kem out on the althar, and you could hear a pin dhrop.
My New Curate P.A. Sheehan
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'Is it me that can be aisy,' she replied, 'when it's my Pat is driving the engine, and him having a dhrop taken, and saying he'll take us a shpin round the Head?'
The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent S.M. Hussey
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His looks inspired me with profound disgust and dislike, which were not at all lessened when I saw him take from the hands of a comrade a black bottle, and applying it to his lips, solace himself with a 'dhrop of the cratur.'
The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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"Come down to Mrs. Haley's; there isn't a better dhrop betune this and Dublin" facing 450
My New Curate P.A. Sheehan
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"''Tis a sad business,' says I."'I've heard it whispered,' says the poor man, an 'he wid the D.S.O. an' all, 'that where there's a good dhrop o' dhrink you're the man to find it.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 5, 1919 Various
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