ginger wine
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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He showed me how an idol looked—it is like when you come to the castor oil under the ginger wine.
From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 2, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
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 Child-Villiers, Margaret Elizabeth Leigh
We played desert islands all the afternoon and drank Uncle's health in ginger wine.
From The Story of the Treasure Seekers by Nesbit, E. (Edith)
And the toast was drunk in ginger wine and water, out of willow-patterned tea-cups, because the glasses couldn't be found.
From The Railway Children by Nesbit, E. (Edith)
The butcher's wife gave us cake and ginger wine, and was very jolly.
From Oswald Bastable and Others by Brock, C. E. (Charles Edmund)
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