Both men looked wistfully at the brimming decanter on his sideboard, and one of them "allowed" he never felt so used up in his life; so the kind-hearted post commander lugged forth a demijohn and poured out two stiff noggins of whiskey, refreshed by which they retold their tale.
"'Laramie;' or, The Queen of Bedlam."
Charles King
"Either that or the timber noggins has changed summat in character since I seen them last," said Trunnell.
"Mr. Trunnell"
T. Jenkins Hains
Upon skids, remote from the tables, stood a barrel of old Monongahela, and hard by in a cart, tumblers, pitchers, noggins, and bottles.
"Quodlibet"
John P. Kennedy