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" But the bottles were claret bottles, and I could by no means feel sure of their purity.
There should be a champagne dinner, for instance, light, and composed of many dishes, but some of these substantial; there should be a claret dinner, grave and conscientious; a Burgundy dinner of few courses, and those solid; a German wine dinner, in which only the simplest plates should appear.
I dread the idea of a teetotal luncheon, but two guineas for a glass of claret and a sandwich is rather much.
A glass of port wine at eleven, with a teaspoonful of bark in it, was the recognized tonic, and brandy (which the doctor, who loved periphrasis, always called ""the domestic stimulant"") was administered whenever one looked squeamish, while mulled claret was ""exhibited"" as a soporific.
""That poor creature, small beer"" at meal-time, was reinforced by a glass of port wine at eleven, by brandy and water if ever one looked squeamish, by mulled claret at bedtime in cold weather, by champagne on all occasions of domestic festivity, and by hot elderberry wine if one had a cold in the head.
That courtly prelate listened with tranquil sympathy till the orator stopped for breath, and then observed, in suavest accents, ""And yet I always think that good claret tastes very like a good creature of God.
"" There are many who, in the depths of their conscience, agree with his Grace; and they would drink claret and nothing but claret if they could get it at dinner.
But, for some inexplicable reason, men who have good claret will not produce it at dinner.
His exhausted brain rallies under the glass of dry sherry, and he realizes all his dreams with the aid of claret that has the true flavour of the violet.
The best bottle of claret which I ever encountered emerged, quite accidentally, from the cellar of a village Inn close to the confluence of the Greta and the Tees, in a district hallowed by the associations of Rokeby and Mr.
Yet at the Brewers' Exhibition there was a Literature of Cider, and that innocent-sounding beverage was quoted at a price per bottle at which Claret is not ashamed to be sold.
At the epoch of cheese, port made its appearance in company with home-brewed beer; and, as soon as the ladies and the schoolboys departed, the men applied themselves, with much seriousness of purpose, to the consumption of claret which was really vinous.
One could ask for a second slice or another wing without feeling greedy, and the claret and amontillado were within the reach of every guest.
Tom Rochford followed frowning, a plaining hand on his claret waistcoat.
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