Word: wineing
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...however, it quickly became obvious that an "excursionist," unless roped, hog-tied and branded as such, could not possibly be distinguished from a "tourist." Any U. S. citizen who found himself in Ontario and considered himself to be a Canadian tourist could secure a tourist permit and quaff beer, wine, ale, whiskey, champagne, gin, in any legal "residence," including his hotel room...
...shrewd madman, peoples his palaces in imagination with the grands seigneurs and ladies of France. "They make the best company," says Ludwig, "because they always go at the first hint from me." Banquets are given, to "the King of France." Ludwig presides, and bewildered Bavarian lackeys must pour out wine and serve viands to a dozen guests who are not there. King Ludwig jests gravely with the empty chair in which is supposed to sit Louis XVI. To Marie Antoinette the sly Ludwig pays less attention. He must not rouse the husband's suspicions ?clever Ludwig! She will slip...
...Kubla Khan.'" His chief guide in this hazardous and admirable journey is a notebook of 90 chaotic pages in which Coleridge was accustomed to scrawl the names of books which he had read or intended to read, ideas which he considered shaping into verse, recipes for ginger-wine and other paraphernalia of a profound and poetic intellect...
...entereth a tavern, and putteth his foot upon the rail of brass; there be those who say, 'Behold a wine-bibber...
...accepted a drink from the hip-flask of one Ralph Martinez, a total stranger. Raising the glass to his lips, Mr. Rodreguez smelled, frowned, excused himself, returned after several minutes with a policeman, who arrested Mr. Martinez for burglary. Mr. Martinez pleaded guilty. He had stolen, not only the wine which Mr. Rodreguez had recognized instantly as his own, but several of Mr. Rodreguez's rings and bracelets, also his watch...