"Beverage" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sign-board, on which was the decaying likeness of a "Dun Cow," supposed to be feeding in a green meadow; but the verdure had long since melted away, and all except the animal herself was a chaos of muddy tints. The "Dun Cow," (a sad misnomer for a place where milk was the last beverage the visitors would ever think of calling for), was to many the centre both of attraction and detraction, for here quarrels were hatched and characters picked to pieces. The landlord had long since been dead, of the usual publican's malady—drink ...
— Frank Oldfield - Lost and Found • T.P. Wilson
... Bean drank. The beverage was icy, but it warmed him to life. The mere white of an egg mixed with a liquid of such perfect innocence that he recalled it from his ...
— Bunker Bean • Harry Leon Wilson
... elements, each combining to produce (with the assistance of man) an article of commerce and luxury, and at the same time, a necessary beverage to man. The earth producing the grain, hops and utensils, which a combination of fire and water reduces into a liquid by fermentation, and when placed in the still to see air engaging fire to assist her in reducing the liquid that fire and water had produced, into a vapour, ...
— The Practical Distiller • Samuel McHarry
... found, seated round a boiling tea-urn, three merchants—one gray-haired, one red-haired, and one dark-haired. Each of these was armed with a steaming tumbler; each of them sipped, smacked his lips, stroked his beard, and sipped again the fragrant beverage. ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. • Various
... Arnold said of his beverage, sitting under the inverted Japanese umbrellas. "I haven't been ...
— The Path of a Star • Mrs. Everard Cotes (AKA Sara Jeannette Duncan)
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