beef-tea

He drank a glass of condensed cream, thinned with water, and by ten o'clock he dared to take a cup of beef-tea.

Chapter 3 2010

“Yes, he will have some beef-tea,” she said, quietly, looking up at me.

Chapter 38 2010

She was close to simpering in the sweetness with which she addressed Mrs Howland: “I think that is the prettiest display of beef-tea your husband has in his store.”

Main Street 2004

Some of us would be as helpless without a Bowdlerised generality or a platitude to sustain our minds as the invalid would be without his peptonised beef-tea.

Red Pottage 2004

I told them that I thought she would die; but they urged me to do something more for her, and as a last hope I gave her some brandy, with twenty-five drops of chlorodyne, and a few spoonfuls of very strong beef-tea.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

Later, when he was recovering, she made him appetising cups of beef-tea or gruel.

Jennie Gerhardt 2004

Granny, who “loved a bit of pork,” also had special dishes, beef-tea and rusks, or a small savoury custard.

The Virgin and the Gypsy 2003

But above all, you must eat strengthening food, take beef-tea, no water, but drink beer.

Strong as Death 2003

The cold sunlight was weaker and Brother Michael was standing at his bedside with a bowl of beef-tea.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2003

She made beef-tea for him and scolded him roundly.

Dubliners 2003