sodawater

Between whiles, beer and sodawater are supplied when called for, so there is no lack of little gastronomical excitements to while away the tedium of a sea voyage.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

"Come, boys," prompted the man of syrups and sodawater, "I can't wait all day."

A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life Herman Gastrell Seely

The needful calories for twenty-four hours of his strenuous existence are supplied by two cups of cocoa, a shred of dried toast, a Brazil nut, a glass of sodawater and a grilled banana.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 19, 1917 Various

There was Miss Livingstone, the fiery, emotional old maid who couldn’t tell the truth; old Mr. Smith, a lawyer without clients, who read Shakespeare and Dryden all day long in his dusty office; Bobbie Jones, the effeminate drug clerk, who wrote free verse and “movie” scenarios, and tended the sodawater fountain.

VI. Book Two: Enid 1922

He scrambled up from his knees with a half-empty syphon of sodawater.

The Return Walter De la Mare 1914

There was Miss Livingstone, the fiery, emotional old maid who couldn't tell the truth; old Mr. Smith, a lawyer without clients, who read Shakespeare and Dryden all day long in his dusty office; Bobbie Jones, the effeminate drug clerk, who wrote free verse and "movie" scenarios, and tended the sodawater fountain.

One of Ours Willa Sibert Cather 1910

I merely wished to ascertain if it would work with spirit, and it did; it went off like a sodawater fountain loaded with dynamite, and I felt truly happy for the first time in many days.

Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others John Kendrick Bangs 1892

Between whiles, beer and sodawater are supplied when called for, so there is no lack of little gastronomical excitements to while away the tedium of a sea voyage.

The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

He said that life was too short for serious study, and that every kind of pursuit should be tempered with fooling; while to prevent fooling becoming wearisome it should always be dashed with something earnest, as the sodawater is dashed with brandy, or the Government of India with Mr. Whitley Stokes.

Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series George Robert Aberigh-Mackay 1864

She looks exactly like an hour-glass, or a sodawater machine.

Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series George Robert Aberigh-Mackay 1864