brandy-punch

The good company, except perhaps one or two of the young women whose looks expressed some desire for better acquaintance, gave themselves no further trouble about me; but, while the seniors resumed their places near an immense bowl or rather reeking cauldron of brandy-punch, the younger arranged themselves on the floor and called loudly on Willie to strike up.

Redgauntlet 2008

Ullah Kerim, says he, after he had drunk about a gallon of brandy-punch! —

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

When the cloth was removed, Mr. Jarvie compounded with his own hands a very small bowl of brandy-punch, the first which I had ever the fortune to see.

Rob Roy 2005

Honourable Mr. Scott had come all the way to Tavistock on purpose to ask him to drink brandy-punch at the Blue Dragon!

The Three Clerks 2004

He did not like the idea of meeting a Cornish stock-jobber in a familiar way over his brandy-punch, while engaged, as he now was, on the part of Government; he felt that there might be impropriety in it, and he would have been glad to get off if he could.

The Three Clerks 2004

Come up to me this evening, and I will give you a glass of brandy-punch.

The Three Clerks 2004

I left about mid-night; it was snowing, and bright moonlight, and as I walked to my billet I found myself thinking of Christmas-time in England, and the coach-ride back from Rugby when the half ended, and warm brandy-punch in the hall, and the roaring fire in the dining-room grate with Father and his cronies talking and laughing and warming their backsides.

Flashman Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1969

Her first reformation was in regard to his club, from which he returned home late, redolent of brandy-punch, and lavish of _my dears_.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 Various

He was a great landowner, so I'm told, down Guildford way, and drank more port and brandy-punch than any man in England.

Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray

The first day that we fixed for it, there came a not very lady-like note, evidently written in bed, from Miss Hardcastle, stating, that having been at a supper-party the night before, and there partaken of brandy-punch to an extent to which she was wholly unaccustomed, it was quite impossible, in the present state of her nervous system, for her to make her appearance in character at any price.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various