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Examples
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The children took a bottle of ginger-beer each with them when they went off again.
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The little shop sold lemonade, orangeade, lime juice, grape-fruit juice and ginger-beer.
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Beverages_. – 3 dozen quart bottles of ale, packed in hampers; ginger-beer, soda-water, and lemonade, of each 2 dozen bottles; 6 bottles of sherry, 6 bottles of claret, champagne à discrétion, and any other light wine that may be preferred, and 2 bottles of brandy.
To Say Nothing of the Three Crates of Picnic Provisions « Dyepot, Teapot 2008
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'Think what a cow misses " never tastes an egg and lettuce sandwich, never eats a chocolate eclair, never has a boiled egg " and can't even drink a glass of ginger-beer!
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They all ate the food and then drank their lime-juice and ginger-beer.
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It also sold ice-creams, and soon the children were sitting drinking ginger-beer and lime-juice mixed, and eating delicious ices.
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The chemist had no boxes of ginger-beer powders, no beautifying sea-side soaps and washes, no attractive scents; nothing but his great goggle-eyed red bottles, looking as if the winds of winter and the drift of the salt-sea had inflamed them.
Reprinted Pieces 2007
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Try the foie gras with black cherries and ginger-beer jelly for a starter, followed by the pan-fried sea bass with scallop and coriander ravioli.
The Good Life 2007
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Mr. Foker attacked the turtle and venison with as much gusto as he had shown the year before, when he used to make feasts off ginger-beer and smuggled polonies.
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She married afterwards, took the name of Latter, and now keeps with her old husband a turnpike, through which I often ride; but I can recollect her bright and rosy of a sunny summer afternoon, her red cheeks shaded by a battered straw bonnet, her tarts and ginger-beer upon a neat white cloth before her, mending blue worsted stockings until the young gentlemen should interrupt her by coming to buy.
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