"Let them keep their red noses for bottles and tankards.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
The tankards circulated; the wine was handed round in queghs and skuties, or timber shells; and brandy followed in abundance.
"Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX"
Alexander Leighton
"Hee-hee," tittered the old man sardonically, and catching up the tankards trotted back to the house, with his master at his heels.
"The Blue Pavilions"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch