rakee

– Went to morning church; afterwards walked with Mr. Anderson, and, returning through a deluge of mud, met the 89th and 17th regiments, which had disembarked at an hour's notice, as an attack is expected to-morrow, it being St. Nicholas's day, when the Russian soldiers are supposed to have an extra ration of rakee; and as they never fight unless half drunk, the argument is not so bad after all.

Journal Kept During The Russian War: From The Departure Of The Army From England In April 1854, To The Fall Of Sebastopol 1856

After which I repair to the bazaar, purchase meat with one dirhem, rakee with another, others go for fruit and flowers, cakes, sweetmeats, bread, oils for my lamps, and the remainder I spend in wine.

The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820

The caliph and his attendants followed him up to his room, where they found a table laid out for supper, on which was a large pitcher of wine, half a roasted kid, a bottle of rakee, preserves, confections, and various kinds of fruit; odoriferous flowers were also on the table, and the lighting up of the room was brilliant.

The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820

Another said, "Be comforted, Yussuf, three days will soon pass away, and then you will relish your kabobs and your rakee, your sweetmeats and your wine, with greater pleasure, having been so long deprived of them."

The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820

After which I repair to the bazaar, purchase meat with one dirhem, rakee with another, others go for fruit and flowers, cakes, sweetmeats, bread, oil for my lamps, and the remainder I spend in wine.

The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820

"Very true, Mustapha; but my mouth is parched up with the sand of that simoom -- sherbet I cannot drink, rakee I must not, the hakim has forbid it; what must it be then, Mustapha?"

The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820

He then drank off a cup of rakee, and rolling over in a state of stupid intoxication, fell fast asleep.

The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820

Another said, "Be comforted, Yussuf, three days will soon pass away, and then you will relish your kabobs, and your rakee, your sweetmeats and your wine, with greater pleasure, having been so long deprived of them."

The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820

They indulged in kabobs, and asking for wine and rakee, which, as forbidden by the law, I never taste, I went out and purchased it for them.

The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820

The caliph and his attendants followed him up to his room, where they found a table laid out for supper, on which was a large pitcher of wine, half a roasted kid, a bottle of rakee, preserves, confections, and various kinds of fruit; odoriferous flowers were also on the table, and the lighting up of the room was brilliant.

The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820