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Example sentences for "brandy"

Lexicographically close words:
brandished; brandishes; brandishing; brandisht; brands; brang; brank; branks; branle; branny
  1. Treatment: After vomiting, give brandy and ammonia in frequently repeated doses, apply warmth to the extremities, and if necessary resort to artificial respiration.

  2. After the poison is evacuated, either may be given with small quantities of brandy and water.

  3. He acquires such a disgust for brandy or other spirits that he is ready to vomit at the very sight of it.

  4. Boil together fifteen minutes, and add a wine-glass of whisky, brandy or rum.

  5. Dissolve five ounces of salt in one pint of good brandy and take two tablespoonfuls three times per day.

  6. Treatment: Mustard over the stomach, and brandy and ammonia.

  7. Treatment: After the stomach is empty apply mustard to the abdomen and to the extremities, and give strong coffee, with brandy and other stimulants, with warmth to the extremities.

  8. The brandy Is given, and quickly He empties the glass.

  9. It was composed of one part of brandy to five parts of water; a proportion which fluctuated, it is true, but chiefly in respect of more water.

  10. The better to evince his sincerity, without further ceremony he accepted and drank as full a bumper of bad brandy and applauded with as much heartiness as any man of the party the truly astonishing tales of their host.

  11. The brandy was deposited on the ground, and the chief gave orders for its distribution.

  12. They declared that if the person was not immediately given up they would either shoot every one of the Company's men, or get the Indians to kill them, were it even to cost them a keg of brandy for each of their heads!

  13. Have a drop of brandy and water, and you will feel as certain about it as I do.

  14. Jack steadily refused the brandy and water, and steadily persisted in taking his leave.

  15. I said that I would try; and sitting down poured a little brandy into the hollow of my hand, and allured the nearest goat with deceitful gestures.

  16. When set upon his feet he was a sorry spectacle: his head was a great snowball, brandy was trickling out of one side of the knapsack, Chartreuse out of the other.

  17. He refused them, giving the curious reason that we had bought a bottle of brandy at Val Tournanche, and had not bought any from him!

  18. The spirit-lamp was lighted, and the remaining spirits of wine, the brandy and some snow were heated by it.

  19. Gilly had an old brandy too, but his attitude towards it was one of studied neglect.

  20. That same black murdered more men as any six in these parts; he it was burned down Che-coat's mill up at Brandy Cove, with all the people fastened up within.

  21. There war n't much savin' in that plan neither, for we drank brandy all day long, and it cost half an ounce of goold every bottle of it!

  22. Sometimes there were other things left in a mysterious way at the door--such as a bladder full of the finest brandy or Hollands gin, or a packet of tobacco or snuff.

  23. All the gentlemen at once put on their hats, and with lanterns and brandy flasks proceeded to search the park in every direction.

  24. Under the influence of the warm fire and the brandy she soon recovered sufficiently to sit up.

  25. They had heard the story of the shooting at Sibbold; they knew these men to be desperate characters; and most of them had had presents of brandy and tobacco, and ribbons for their wives.

  26. The woman was carried in and laid upon the rug before the fire, the servant came crowding in to render assistance brandy was brought, and the stranger opened her eyes and moaned faintly.

  27. Biddy had had her share of weak brandy and water; she had never tasted it before, and it soon sent her to sleep.

  28. Old Tobias had hot blankets down before the fire and a steaming tumbler of brandy and water ready in no time.

  29. But you cannot at this day give wine and brandy without stint to one or two or three hundred men and women of all ages, habits, temperaments and hereditary moral and physical conditions without the production of many evil consequences.

  30. They are legitimate consequences of the free wine and brandy dispensed at Mr. Birtwell's," said Doctor Hillhouse.

  31. It does not make a free indulgence in wine and brandy any the more excusable because men overeat themselves.

  32. A physician takes upon himself a great responsibility when, without any knowledge of the antecedents of a patient or the stock from which he may have come, he prescribes whisky or wine or brandy as a stimulant.

  33. A glass of wine or brandy to him is like the match to a train of powder.

  34. He only wanted to rest now, and let the glass of brandy he had taken do its work on his exhausted system.

  35. I have always used wine, and a little good brandy too, and am as free from any inordinate appetite as your most confirmed abstainer; but then I take especial care to have my liquor pure.

  36. On the contrary, I am ready to entertain our friends, but the party I give must be one in which no wine or brandy is served.

  37. If a young man drinks wine or brandy until he becomes intoxicated, as Whitford has done to-night, and we say he is drunk instead of exhilarated or a little gay, we do something toward making his conduct odious.

  38. Old Bernard Dane went straight over to the buffet and poured a wine-glassful of brandy from a cut-glass decanter which stood there.

  39. Doctor Lynne was hurriedly searching the old-fashioned corner cupboard for brandy and other restoratives.

  40. But as the doctor paused before the fire to measure some brandy into the glass in his hand, the silence of the room was broken by an unexpected sound--the cry of a little child.

  41. Sad their faces as they listen To the story of Manassa In his shack against the boulder On the side of Corliss Mountain, Drinking brandy with his comrades, Balcomb, Cobb, Calhoun and Calburn.

  42. Till the brandy jug was empty, And the game they played forgotten-- All the time the rain was falling.

  43. Gauffres à la Vanille Are made the same as the gauffres aux pistaches, but adding half a stick of vanilla well pounded and sifted with the sugar, and half a glass of brandy instead of the orange-flower-water.

  44. Two glasses of pale brandy may advantageously be added to the jelly.

  45. Charles got less cautious as he got surer, and moreover, as I could not but observe, he was mellowing somewhat under the brandy he was drinking.

  46. This was, I fancy, only his way of excusing to me the nip of brandy he was pouring out.

  47. The brandy and water is furnished and imbibed, and the diddler makes his way to the door.

  48. Here, take it back, and give me a glass of brandy and water in its place.

  49. I give you the tobacco for the brandy and water?

  50. I believe, sir, you have forgotten to pay for your brandy and water.

  51. Sanford jumped down, followed by Smearly carrying the brandy and the major with a mattress, and ran along her deck to where the man lay.

  52. When the keg was empty brandy was brought by the kettle full and ladled out with large wooden spoons, and this was kept up until the last skin was disposed of.

  53. So strong was their hostility that Louis XIV, in 1694, referred to the Sorbonne for decision the question of allowing French brandy to be shipped to Michilimackinac.

  54. The case was referred to the fathers of the Sorbonne and they pronounced the selling of brandy to the Indians a mortal sin.

  55. William Penn wrote in 1683: "Ye Dutch, Sweed and English have by brandy and specially rum almost debauched ye Indians all.

  56. Brandy and whiskey were placed on the tables in decanters to be drunk by the guests without additional charge therefor.

  57. LeClercq observes with truth and candor that an Indian would be baptized ten times a day for a pint of brandy or a pound of tobacco.

  58. The price is high, and as they cannot get brandy only each in his turn, it sometimes happens that the savages are obliged to return home without a taste of this beverage, and they seem ready to kill themselves with disappointment.

  59. Then a keg of brandy would be purchased and the council held to decide who was to get drunk and who was to stay sober.

  60. A quarter of a cask of brandy was also to be added.

  61. They made wine, beer, or brandy out of sassafras, persimmons, corn, and apparently anything that could be made to ferment and they imported Madeira.

  62. However, Brandy Hannes is there; he has set up a little table under the ash-trees and placed upon it some large bottles and small glasses.

  63. Quickly drawing the stopper, she pours the sparkling, smoking brandy upon the ground, to the last drop.

  64. He tried to drown his sorrow in brandy; but the brandy brought the two hundred whip-lashes to life again.

  65. Brandy is like oil in the fire, and thus the unfortunate fights arise.

  66. What a good thing it would have been for us now, if we could have sold a little brandy of a Sunday, and I consider Grassteiger a lucky fellow!

  67. You are giving the Winkelstegers brandy no longer, and you are a man of honour, a great benefactor to the parish.

  68. Finally in his indignation he has with a loud voice denounced the brandy as a fountain of hell, a poison for body and soul, and the brandy-distiller as a poisoner.

  69. Otherwise, a second instalment of the brandy might have been administered behind Jan's back.

  70. Being asked by one of the sheriffs if he would refresh himself with a glass of wine, he declined it, because no warm water could be had to mix with it, and took a little burnt brandy and bitters in its stead.

  71. A lawsuit with the owner of the estate was the consequence, and the countess went to St. Petersburgh, and there turned brandy distiller, and returned to Paris before it was concluded.

  72. It was said that he had perished in some attempt to cross some glaciers in Switzerland;--but by degrees it appeared that the glacier itself had been less dangerous than the brandy which he had swallowed whilst on his journey.

  73. After drinking brandy so long I hardly think that 12s.

  74. Throckmorton poured in the rum and brandy with such liberality that Judith with great firmness took both bottles away from him.

  75. But he felt like a man who, having a head to stand champagne and brandy and absinthe and every other intoxication, comes across something that looks as harmless as water, but which sets his brain on fire and makes him a madman.

  76. There were demonstrations of electrical phenomenon such as seeing brandy ignited by a spark shooting from a man's finger and transferring an electrical impulse among a circle of people by their holding hands.

  77. Only persons keeping public victualling houses, inns, coffee houses, alehouses or brandy shops who exercised no other trade were allowed to obtain a license.

  78. Ever since their marriage she had been living on moose meat stews with potatoes and gravy, white flour bread with jam, black tea with canned milk, a ritual glass of brandy at bedtime, and almost no fresh fruit or vegetables.

  79. Somebody must go to Billy's and get some good brandy for her.

  80. How should he get the brandy if Bill persisted in refusing, for he meant having it at any cost?

  81. You must make it with the best brandy you can get.


  82. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brandy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    gin; spirits; whiskey