ginger wine
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“No rum, gentlemen?” said Silas; “well, you do astonish me; but you’ll taste my wife’s green ginger wine, and drink her health?”
From Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" by Gordon Stables
If the knee be lacerated, apply tinder to stop the bleeding; if the moxa should suppurate, spread a plaster; if a cold be caught, prepare medicine and garlic and gruel, and ginger wine!
From Tales of Old Japan by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Baron Redesdale
The Scottish housekeeper, Mrs. Wallace, was also a devoted friend and a great dispenser of cakes, ices, and home-made cowslip and ginger wine.
From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers
We played desert islands all the afternoon and drank Uncle's health in ginger wine.
From The Story of the Treasure Seekers by E. (Edith) Nesbit
He was shown into the blue-and-white room, and there, after business had been transacted, very nervously on Miss Ailie's part, she offered him his choice between ginger wine and what she falteringly called wh-wh-whiskey.
From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
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