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On Dec. 27 lay the Feast of St. John, who was said to have drank a cup of poisoned wine without succumbing.

From Salon • Dec. 23, 2024

"It's the first clean water I have drank for three days," she says with relief.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2023

The 39-year-old Banks, the New York Herald reported, was “a good looking man” with a stiff, puritanical manner who “is even said never to have drank a glass of liquor in his life.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 30, 2022

Ross Chastain knows he should have drank more water during the week, and figures eating some more watermelon probably would have helped too.

From Seattle Times • May 21, 2022

You have drank to the emperor with a captain in the imperial service, and by that act have become a soldier.'

From Tales from the German. Volume II. The Lichtensteins, The Sorceress, The Anabaptist by Velde, Carl Franz van der