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- noun Plural form of
brimmer .
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Examples
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Preserved Coppinger (a hot fellow in his night, may the mouther of guard have mastic on him!) in a pullwoman of our first transhibernian with one still sadder circumstance which is a dirkandurk heartskewerer if ever to bring bouncing brimmers from marbled eyes.
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The wenches were doubly diligent, and brought brimmers of
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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The wenches were doubly diligent, and brought brimmers of
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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He distinguished drunken voices singing snatches of bacchanalian songs, while now and then stentorian mouths called for fresh brimmers, and new toasts were drunk with uproarious applause.
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He ate up two-thirds of the capon, and, devoting the first bumper to the happy restoration of Charles, second of the name, he finished a quart of wine; for he belonged to a school accustomed to feed the flame of their loyalty with copious brimmers.
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No wonder, then, that they made a straight wake for the whale's mouth -- the bar -- when the wrinkled little old Jonah, there officiating, soon poured them out brimmers all round.
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No wonder, then, that they made a straight wake for the whale's mouth -- the bar -- when the wrinkled little old Jonah, there officiating, soon poured them out brimmers all round.
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And the stout old gentleman emptied his bumper; to which Dick replied by filling and emptying a pair of brimmers, one for the General and one for the Duke.
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No wonder, then, that they made a straight wake for the whale's mouth -- the bar -- when the wrinkled little old Jonah, there officiating, soon poured them out brimmers all round.
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A keg of brandy was broached, and the health of the new brother quaffed in brimmers.
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