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Examples
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Yuri would always bring us the freshest of his homemade portwine, the worst I'd ever drunk and the worst drunk I'd ever had.
Weld (St. Petersburg Blues) Andrew Trent 2010
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As soon as we launched on the shop we went for Slouse who ran it, a big portwine jelly of a veck who viddied at once what was coming and made straight for the inside where the telephone was and perhaps his well-oiled pooshka, complete with six dirty rounds.
Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010
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The bottle came out and the portwine went down, as raw and fiery as he'd hoped.
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Barbara Jean hates her birthmark, a portwine stain on her face which her peers and her mother have made fun of ever since she was little.
slayground: In the Garage by Alma Fullerton Little Willow 2007
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We saw its resemblance to this portwine-bottle-glass in an odd way at the Ojo de Agua, where the wall of the hacienda was armed at the top, after our English fashion, apparently with bits of old bottles, but which turned out to be chips of obsidian.
Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor
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The head of the German delegation, a Dr. Schwabel, who had a portwine nose which must have cost him a couple of bottles of port a day to keep in bloom, arrived blind-folded.
The Last Canadian Battle and the Surrender of the Germany Army 1945
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The abnormalities of harelip, breastmole, supernumerary digits, negro's inkle, strawberry mark and portwine stain were alleged by one as a
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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FLORRY-TERESA: It was in consequence of a portwine beverage on top of
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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We are a distinguished gentleman tipsy on portwine.
The Yellow Stereo 2009
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we used three different kinds: bordeaux-, portwine- and beer-yeast.
just married... misses free 2008
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