spruce-beer

But one morning -- I forget exactly the day -- but perhaps it was the Tuesday or Wednesday before that evening, he wanted to make a memorandum in his pocket-book; it was about spruce-beer.

Emma Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 2001

Mr. Knightley had been telling him something about brewing spruce-beer, and he wanted to put it down; but when he took out his pencil, there was so little lead that he soon cut it all away, and it would not do, so you lent him another, and this was left upon the table as good for nothing.

Emma Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 2001

In two minutes, however, he relented in his own favour; and muttering something about spruce-beer, walked off.

Emma Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 2001

The substance from which spruce-beer is made, is an extract of the branches of the _Abies Canadensis_, or Hemlock

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 529, January 14, 1832 Various

The young shoots are much in demand for making spruce-beer.

Among the Trees at Elmridge Ella Rodman Church

The spruce-beer bottle was not yet in the well, and with that and my luncheon, and Pleasure at the helm, I went out into the happy world.

A Dunnet Shepherdess 1910

The spruce-beer customers were pretty steady in hot weather, and there were many demands for different soothing syrups and elixirs with which the unwise curiosity of my early residence had made me acquainted.

Mrs. Todd 1910

The spruce-beer bottle was not yet in the well, and with that and my luncheon, and Pleasure at the helm, I went out into the happy world.

A Dunnet Shepherdess 1899

The spruce-beer bottle was not yet in the well, and with that and my luncheon, and Pleasure at the helm, I went out into the happy world.

The Queen's Twin and Other Stories Sarah Orne Jewett 1879

The spruce-beer customers were pretty steady in hot weather, and there were many demands for different soothing syrups and elixirs with which the unwise curiosity of my early residence had made me acquainted.

The Country of the Pointed Firs Sarah Orne Jewett 1879