And the brandy was not common schnaps, but an old expensive brandy that, regarded as a smell, was a credit to anybody's cabin.
"Christopher and Columbus"
Countess Elizabeth Von Arnim
She was sorry for poor people, and as her husband was a rich man, she considered it no crime to give a penny to a beggar-woman, or to offer an old man a "schnaps."
"The Marvellous History of the Shadowless Man and The Cold Heart"
Adelbert von Chamisso Wilhelm Hauff
Then they ran across to the huckster's for schnaps and beer, leaving the door wide open behind them; there was just half a minute to spare while the herring was getting cooked on the one side!
"Pelle the Conqueror, Vol. 2"
Martin Anderson Nexo