sherry-cobblers

In Henry James's "An International Episode," a New York businessman recounts how a visitor from England "did nothing but drink sherry-cobblers."

Grasping at Straws 2008

He felt again the relief of the evening wind; heard again the chat of a group of English officers who sipped sherry-cobblers at a table a few paces off.

Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878

Pliny's Astomoi, and the Africans of Eudoxus, whose joined lips compelled them to eat a single grain at a time, and to drink through a cane before sherry-cobblers were known.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855

'Get a couple of sherry-cobblers, Mark, and we'll drink success to the firm.'

Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens 1841

Bowie knife at her girdle, smoking a cigar, no doubt, and tippling sherry-cobblers and mint-juleps.

The Ancestral Footstep (fragment) Outlines of an English Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

Bowie knife at her girdle, smoking a cigar, no doubt, and tippling sherry-cobblers and mint-juleps.

Sketches and Studies Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

A peculiar accompaniment was a dulcet whistle with lips protruded; hence probably the fable of Pliny’s Astomoi, and the Africans of Eudoxus, whose joined lips compelled them to eat a single grain at a time, and to drink through a cane before sherry-cobblers were known.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

“I think I see one of those paragons now, in a Bloomer, I think you call it, swaggering along with a Bowie knife at her girdle, smoking a cigar, no doubt, and tippling sherry-cobblers and mint-juleps.

Sketches and Studies Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 1852