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  • Made a lot of other people tipsy with the special Apex rum-punch brew.

    October Issue of Apex Magazine apexdigest 2008

  • Dunkirk, — night falling, lunar rainbow, brandy-and-water; night confoundedly thick; supper, nightcap of rum-punch, and so to bed.

    The Paris Sketch Book 2006

  • But on the night of the rum-punch, though Mr. Case found Gumbo and Mrs. Betty whispering in the doorway, in the cool breeze, and

    The Virginians 2006

  • She gobbled up more cakes than any six people present; then came the supper and the sandwiches again, and the egg-flip and the horrible rum-punch.

    The Fitz-Boodle Papers 2006

  • She owned, with contrition, her partiality for rum-punch, which Mr. Gumbo had the knack of brewing most delicate.

    The Virginians 2006

  • Mr S — said nothing at present, but accommodated him with a pair of shoes; then ordered his servant to rub him down, and comfort him with a glass of rum-punch, which seemed, in a great measure, to cool the rage of his indignation.

    The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

  • It is one of those orthodox customs which people follow for half a century without knowing why, to drink a sip of rum-punch, in a very small tumbler, after the soup.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various

  • The most strait-laced Massachusetts Calvinist of these days would have been disciplined by them for insufferable laxity, and yet their modern successor would count it utter shame, perhaps, to own a slave in his family or to drink rum-punch at an ordination, -- which Puritan divines might do without rebuke.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various

  • There was warmth, and light, and music, and the odor of rum-punch and lemon, and the pungency of cigars, and the pleasant stimulus of agreeable conversation.

    My New Curate P.A. Sheehan

  • Cakes and jellies, preserves and sandwiches, tarts and ruddy apples, a decanter of sherry and a stand of liqueurs, left barely room enough for the dainty little plates and glasses, while Billy's special apology appeared in the form of two steaming little tumblers of rum-punch, the characteristic beverage of the day.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various

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