They appeared frequently in the shape of addresses to young men's political and reading clubs, or in a "few remarks" at church socials, where a programme of songs and recitations was followed by the distribution of home-made cakes and candies, and of uninspiriting Beverages.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
While there was a large quantity of alcoholic Beverages consumed, drunkennes was at a minimum.
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs
Starting from the oldest to the youngest they drank down their Beverages.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills