soda-water

Each guest had been served with a crystal goblet filled with lacasa, which is a sort of nectar famous in Oz and nicer to drink than soda-water or lemonade.

Love Letters 2010

You see, my life is not only wonderful and beautiful to myself, but if my life goes, nothing else really matters — to me … Eva might be snatched from the flames and live to be the grandmother of brilliant and charming men and women, but as far as I should be concerned she and they would no more exist than a vanished puff of cigarette smoke or a dissolved soda-water bubble.

Where the Wild Things Are 2008

You see, my life is not only wonderful and beautiful to myself, but if my life goes, nothing else really matters — to me … Eva might be snatched from the flames and live to be the grandmother of brilliant and charming men and women, but as far as I should be concerned she and they would no more exist than a vanished puff of cigarette smoke or a dissolved soda-water bubble.

Where the Wild Things Are 2008

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

I discovered the soda-water quite by accident one day at a restaurant.

Photo food diary Tuesday Dec. 2, 2008 | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008

And at that they all cried and howled so, that their breaths came all up through the sea like bubbles out of soda-water; and that is one reason of the bubbles in the sea.

The Water Babies 2007

Not far from where I stood, the members of a picnic party were flirting and laughing hilariously, throwing chicken-bones and peach-stones over the cliff, drinking champagne and soda-water.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

He tasted his wine: it was a villanous compound of sugar, vitriol, soda-water, and green gooseberries.

The Bedford-Row Conspiracy 2006

A bottle of soda-water certainly costs — well, never mind how much.

Roundabout Papers 2006

We breakfasted with Jack Herring at twelve, and kept up with brandy and soda-water and weeds till four; then we toddled into the

The Book of Snobs 2006