They burst into tears, therefore, simultaneously, and the dispute ended, as such disputes often do, in a general reconciliation, cemented by the consumption of much Excisable fluid, some of it at the expense of the philanthropic coalheaver, whose simple faith involved a persuasion that the closest connection must always be preserved between good-fellowship and beer.
"M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur.""
G.J. Whyte-Melville
At the former of those periods the lower classes of the people were able to consume Excisable commodities; in the latter they lived for the most part on the immediate produce of the soil.
"The Commercial Restraints of Ireland"
John Hely Hutchinson