Word: wineing
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Rasputin ate greedily of the cake but it did not seem to affect him. He drank poisoned wine, seemingly without effect. "Play something cheerful. I like to hear you sing," said the monk to his worried host, Prince Yussupov. He sang...
...ceilinged room in which a table was set for 50, he noted the portrait of Samuel Johnson by Sir Joshua Reynolds that adorns a space above the fireplace and he noted, too, the heavily timbered windows that shut out much of what little light streams in from the narrow Wine Office Court, a lane hardly more than three feet wide, on which the Cheshire Cheese abuts...
...York, who had been abroad for two months. Surely the adjectives applied by the bargees were out of order; they had read, no doubt, in spare moments, accounts of the Mayor's whiskey-tippling in England, his beer-drinking in Germany, his liquid luncheons in Italy, his wine-bibbing in France and his miscellaneous guzzlings in bars and on trains elsewhere. But they had not read the Mayor's most recent wireless message from on board the Ile de France: "It was to get a broader and more comprehensive view of city problems and their correction that...
...University, few have served a greater diversity of purposes than Harvard Hall, noted for its bell which acts as an alarm clock to the seniors. From the time of its construction in the seventeenth century it has been used as general University headquarters, Revolutionary barracks, grocery store and wine shop...
...returned home last fortnight. Mizpah was used by the Israelites as a fortress and capital during the Babylonian invasion. Its walls were 16 feet to 25 feet thick. Stratified ruins revealed civilizations stretching back from 500 to 3000 B. C. In a 7th Century B. C. cellar were found wine jars and a statue of the Egyptian...