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Example sentences for "beer"

Lexicographically close words:
beekeepers; beeline; been; beene; beens; beere; beerhouse; beery; bees; beest
  1. Sometimes he is fain to put up with bread and cheese and small beer for dinner; and sometimes he regales on twopennyworth of ox cheek in a cellar.

  2. After this accommodation, our landlord and we sat down at a board, and dined upon shin of beef most deliciously; our reckoning amounting to twopence halfpenny each, bread and small beer included.

  3. But I had no sooner swallowed a mouthful, than I thought my entrails were scorched, and endeavoured with a deluge of small-beer to allay the heat it occasioned.

  4. And, taking pen, ink, and paper, wrote the following items: To bread and beer 0 6 To a fowl and sausages 2 6 To four bottles of quadrim.

  5. For three weeks ago such floods came, that an old woman was carried off as she was retiring from a beer house about 9 p.

  6. She was probably half seas over before she left the beer house.

  7. I have my books, a barrel of beer which I tap myself (can you tap a barrel of beer?

  8. As the last, but using water or beer instead of vinegar.

  9. Pure beer is decoloured and deodorised by animal charcoal; but beer containing picric acid, when thus treated, retains a lemon-yellow colour and the odour.

  10. Frosted beer is recovered by change of situation; by the addition of some hops boiled in a little sweet wort; or by adding a little moist sugar or treacle to induce a fresh fermentation.

  11. By this method wine or beer is obtained, which is invariably far superior in quality to that fermented in the usual manner.

  12. As ginger-beer powders, but substituting essence of spruce, 3 to 6 drops, for the powdered ginger.

  13. Such beer must be soon put on draught, as it is very apt to get flat by keeping.

  14. October beer should not be bottled before Midsummer, nor March beer till Christmas.

  15. The Parisians bottle their beer one day and sell it the next.

  16. This is said of unsaleable beer when rendered saleable, by giving it 'head' or removing its 'tartness.

  17. This is added to thin and vapid beer to make it bear a frothy head.

  18. Irish beer and malt, too, were excluded from England, whereas English beer and malt were imported into Ireland at a nominal duty.

  19. It is said that subsequently they drank enormous quantities of beer and wine, and sometimes even to disgraceful excess.

  20. He drank the beer quickly, went out, bought Miss Rankin the cream and after delivering it to her, went outside again and up State Street.

  21. It happened fifteen years ago," began Speed when their beer had been served.

  22. He drank the beer and then ordered liquor.

  23. Caspar and Babbett were standing before the Eagle: the former had a mug of beer in his hand, and brought it to Florian to drink.

  24. On Jack George's motion, it was resolved that every man should be at liberty to have his glass of beer before him, but no more.

  25. Florian ordered a bottle of wine for himself and his comrades, while Josey was regaled with a mug of beer at an adjoining table.

  26. We used to walk miles and miles, and carry some buns or buy them, and get milk or ginger-beer at the farms.

  27. You've given up your beer for it--aye, and maybe your baccy.

  28. There had been, apparently, judging by an odour which still remained, a great deal of beer consumed in the apartment at one time or another.

  29. Your beer I will never drink, but Miss Julia knows that she hasn't in the world a slave so abject as I.

  30. Beer is only a prototype of other things.

  31. I knew the corner beer joint where he did odd jobs as free lunch carver and window cleaner.

  32. It's as warm and cheerful as an underground beer vault.

  33. I only saw them the day father brought them here, and then there were so many in the court-yard, and such a trampling of horses, and I had to bring so many tankards of beer for the soldiers, that I minded naught beside.

  34. My dear girl, don't you realize that this thing isn't all beer and skittles?

  35. I do not sing, either, except in a small-beer voice; and when I tried to sew I pricked my fingers with the needle.

  36. What do you know about beer and beer-openers?

  37. I wouldn't advise you to take beer for shortness of the breath," said Philo Gubb.

  38. If she does not go to the penitentiary, there are no bottles of beer and there is no beer-opener.

  39. Getting bottles of beer in her bed, and robbing houses at her time of life, and wanting the Ladies' Temperance League to have a special meeting this morning to approve of burglary and larceny!

  40. If you mean seven bottles of beer and a beer-opener, I do.

  41. If those bottles of beer came from my house Aunt Martha Turner goes to the penitentiary.

  42. Not even seven bottles of beer and a beer-opener, I suppose!

  43. Some wan wanted me t' search th' house here t' see did Snooksy have sivin bottles iv beer an' a silver beer-opener in his room.

  44. Beer hidden between the quilt and the mattress of Aunt Martha's bed, and she Secretary of the Ladies' Temperance League!

  45. That he would find the beer in this house!

  46. He told me he couldn't find seven bottles of beer and a beer-opener.

  47. And now, having shown our unity of interest with young Mr. Turner, there can be no harm in telling us where that beer is, can there?

  48. If I gave you five dollars to hire you to hunt for them, could you find them seven bottles of beer and that beer-opener, for me?

  49. I want to ask him about those seven bottles of beer and that beer-opener," said Philo Gubb.

  50. When they brought the furrow to an end, there they found the broken vice, and a barrel of beer placed near it.

  51. A young woman was madly in love with a young man, and she gave the servant man a jug of beer for procuring a frog for her.

  52. The leaves placed in beer or wine will keep these liquids from becoming sour, and give them such a flavour that you will dispose of them quickly.

  53. He called for a glass of beer and bread and cheese, and was charged tenpence for the same, fourpence for the beer, and sixpence for the bread and cheese.

  54. One doesn't necessarily want to drink beer before every waterfall or listen to a yoedel in every cavern.

  55. Nervi is a place of German hotels, much beer and an unaccommodating tram line.

  56. Naturally, a muckle pint o' beer will be the exact thing ye need doon there," he added.

  57. Do ye mean to tell me that there is beer in heaven?

  58. Why, man, I dreamed last nicht that I was sittin' we a great muckle pint o' beer in my hand.

  59. The Hotel de Ville with its curious weather-vane of twelfth-century vintage and the Hotel Fauçon particularly interested me: the former because I had read of it and the latter because it had real beer on ice.

  60. If your majesty designed to be angry, it was not necessary to light the pipes and fill the beer-mugs; for while you are neither smoking nor drinking, the pipe goes out, and the beer becomes stale.

  61. But, then, Eckert deserved it," said the fat beer brewer.

  62. There are still many smoking chimneys and indifferent beer breweries.

  63. At court no more beer will be drank, but only French wines; and he who wishes to be modern and acceptable at court will turn up his nose at the beer-pot, and drink mean and adulterated wines.

  64. He held his hands and his nose over the radiant heat, and smoked a black clay pipe; and I think he had a can of beer beside him.

  65. I remember rightly, we had bread and cheese and a great deal of beer and hot brandy and water to follow.

  66. It is not even moral; not a single man has ever been induced to drink ginger-beer instead of beer by reading Keats.

  67. These, so far as I can make out, bid us abstain from meat and beer and tobacco, and the State shall give us a pound a day and save our souls alive.

  68. The other replies: "How good the beer at the Three Salmons tasted that day we walked all the way from Caerleon on the Old Usk Road.

  69. The day closed so far as meals were concerned with bread and cheese and beer at nine o'clock.

  70. Upon the bright green shutters, there were golden legends about beer and ale, and neat wines, and good beds; and an affecting picture of a brown jug frothing over at the top.

  71. But they all agreed that in the midst of them sat, quite at his ease, an individual with a pipe in his mouth, and a jug of beer at his elbow, who nodded condescendingly to Clemency, when she stationed herself at the same table.

  72. The instantaneous result was that a cataract of beer flowed down Hauskuld's face and beard, while the rafters rang with a shout of laughter from the Sea-kings and court-men who sat in the immediate neighbourhood of the King's high seat.

  73. That brave individual, however, protested that he had had quite enough, and immediately retired with a very bad grace to drink his beer in comfort out of a horn cup among kindred spirits.


  74. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.