The challenge of the old deer-stealer, to enter his cottage and finish the gin, was readily responded to by his confrere; and both, staggering inside the hut, flung themselves into a couple of rush-bottomed chairs.
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid
"Surgeon Riley, sir; a very respectable practitioner," said he, waving his hand towards his rubicund confrere.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
Now his confrere was none of these; he had been drafted from the Galway militia to the line, for some election services rendered by his family to the government candidate; was of a saturnine and discontented habit; always miserable about some trifle or other, and never at rest till he had drowned his sorrows in Jamaica rum-which, since the regiment was abroad, he had copiously used as a substitute for whiskey.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)