The second requires a third swig, and still a fourth, and appetite increasing with that it feeds on, the stream rushes down the brazen throat that burns for more.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
Pere Potipard gladly accepted, and after a generous swig at his brandy, began telling me about what happened at Villiers during the German invasion in 1870. As he talked on, night gradually disappeared, and when the clock in the belfry tolled three A. M. my successors came to relieve me.
"My Home In The Field of Honor"
Frances Wilson Huard
Then Linkin sed to me, ses he, "Major, take a good swig of this old rye.
"Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia"
Seba Smith