shandy-gaff

If the weather was hot, there was sure to be a jug of shandy-gaff or some other equally enticing compound ready to be produced just at the time when its contents would be most appreciated.

Frank Oldfield Lost and Found T.P. Wilson

Claret-cup, champagne-cup, and soda-water, brandy and shandy-gaff, are provided on a separate table for the gentlemen; Apollinaris water, and the various aerated waters so fashionable now, are also provided.

Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

The weather was very hot, and railway travelling at times oppressive, even to delegates from the sunny land of France, and shandy-gaff, a beverage new to most of the visitors, was in great request.

Fifty Years of Railway Life in England Scotland and Ireland Tatlow, Joseph 1920

We got a jar of shandy-gaff, some food, and, on Ewart's suggestion, two Japanese sunshades in Staines; we demanded extra cushions at the boathouse and we spent an enormously soothing day in discourse and meditation, our boat moored in a shady place this side of Windsor.

Tono Bungay 1906

Bruce decided that the right thing to drink was shandy-gaff, but, to keep up her Continental reputation, Madame Frabelle said she would like

Love at Second Sight Ada Leverson 1897

One 'ot Sunday, bein' out for a walk, 'e swiped' arf a pint of ginger beer, the next 'e tried shandy-gaff, the third' e went the whole hog, an 'then' e never stopped for ten years.

The Stowaway Girl Louis Tracy 1895

At the Crystal Palace, where they all had shandy-gaff, they met one of

Vandover and the Brute Frank Norris 1886

Champagne cannot be so royally sound, nor is shandy-gaff so humble, that it 'scapes whipping.

Lost Leaders Andrew Lang 1878

But they survived the "jam;" and what with chicken pie, and beef and ham, and gooseberry pie and shandy-gaff, to say nothing of jokes and laughter, and vows of eternal friendship with every Grandcourt fellow within hail, they never (to quote the experience of the little foxes in the nursery rhyme) "they never eat a better meal in all their life."

Follow My leader The Boys of Templeton Talbot Baines Reed 1872

On getting out of Moor Park there is a public-house just to the left where we generally have some shandy-gaff and buy some eggs.

The Note-Books of Samuel Butler Samuel Butler 1868