gin-and-water

Mrs. Bute took one glass of port, honest James had a couple commonly, but as his father grew very sulky if he made further inroads on the bottle, the good lad generally refrained from trying for more, and subsided either into the currant wine, or to some private gin-and-water in the stables, which he enjoyed in the company of the coachman and his pipe.

Vanity Fair 2006

It was no other than this — Jim, who was always of a generous disposition, and when in his cups especially hospitable, had in the course of the night treated the Tutbury champion and the Rottingdean man, and their friends, twice or thrice to the refreshment of gin-and-water — so that no less than eighteen glasses of that fluid at eightpence per glass were charged in Mr. James

Vanity Fair 2006

Whenever he came up from the kitchen-parlour to the drawing-room and partook of tea or gin-and-water with Mr. Sedley, he would say, “This was not what you was accustomed to once, sir,” and as gravely and reverentially drink the health of the ladies as he had done in the days of their utmost prosperity.

Vanity Fair 2006

He could not sit long with the simple gratification of a cigar, without gin-and-water or other comfort of that kind, even though the eloquence of Count Pateroff might be excited in his favor.

The Claverings 2005

During breakfast on the following day — which means from the hour of one till two, for the glasses of iced gin-and-water had been many — Archie Clavering was making up his mind that he would begin at once.

The Claverings 2005

He was a man, indeed, who did not love to sit still, even with the comfort of gin-and-water.

The Claverings 2005

He sat the whole evening in the smoking-room, very silent, drinking slowly iced gin-and-water; and the more he drank, the more assured he felt that he now understood the way in which he was to attempt the work before him.

The Claverings 2005

That lesson should quickly precede his offer; and, although he had almost hoped, in the interval between two of his beakers of gin-and-water on the preceding evening, that he might ride the race and win it altogether during this very morning visit he was about to make, in his cooler moments he had begun to reflect that that would hardly be practicable.

The Claverings 2005

Whereupon Mr Lupex finished his first measure of gin-and-water.

The Small House at Allington 2004

The interest which has been felt in his career is over, and he is no longer the hero of an hour — but he is a free man, and may drink his gin-and-water where he pleases.

Phineas Redux 2004