quaff
verb (used without object)
to drink a beverage, especially an intoxicating one, copiously and with hearty enjoyment.
will quaff
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future tenseof quaff.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Troth, Master Fawkes, I did drink to thy health awhile ago; now I will quaff a flagon to thy daughter.
From The Fifth of November A Romance of the Stuarts by Charles S. Bentley
They said, "Too free you give your soul's rare wine; The world will quaff, but it will not repay."
From Poems of Passion by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Gray old times are growing young: From the flashing colour-fountain I will quaff it deep and long!—
From Rampolli by George MacDonald
It's health we will quaff; that will help us to laugh, And to treat it in manner polite.
From Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations by C. E. (Clara Elizabeth) Fanning
Erelong shall God bring forth from His Temple such souls as will remain unswayed by the insinuations of the rebellious, and who will quaff at all times of the cup that is life indeed.
From The Summons of the Lord of Hosts by Bahá'u'lláh
