It may be imagined that Mr. Stacpoole declined to receive oilcake as if it were "potheen" or other contraband, and at once closed his account with the firm in question.    From Wordnik.com.  [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference

“Be jabers, let him drink his health in his own potheen.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Anerley] Reference

A gentleman, who ought to know better, was buying some potheen, or illicit whisky, of the maker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference

Coming hilariously through the dwelling into the shop, these were soon busily drinking their 'potheen.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference

The raal Irishman has fire enough in his bluid; but there's no denying a glass of potheen is the stuff to regulate it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference

‘I suppose you will, Frank; but bacon won’t go down well after venison; and a course of claret is a bad preparative for potheen punch.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kellys and the O'Kellys] Reference

Joyces distilled in the mountains under the name of potheen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tragic Bride] Reference

The potheen and the potatoes -- what would Ireland be without 'em?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Light O' the Morning] Reference

That will warm you up; and I have a little potheen in a black bottle, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Light O' the Morning] Reference

The teapot having taken to leaking, as Biddy said, she had made the tea in the potheen jug.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paddy Finn] Reference

She sipped the potheen, ate a little bacon and cold potatoes, and presently declared herself well again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Light O' the Morning] Reference

A glass of right potheen, straw-color, peat-flavor, ten degrees over proof, would be the only thing to drown my cares.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rookwood] Reference

Doyle's underground still, with Peggy and her battered donkey come in to smuggle a load of potheen across the bog, and to bring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alexander's Bridge] Reference

"Here, Ashton, take this potheen," he said, "it will settle your perturbed spirits, comfort your soul, and drive dull care away.".    From Wordnik.com.  [From Wealth to Poverty] Reference

When the war's over, you may get back to Somerset and cider or your native Ireland and its potheen; but until then you'll make the best of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Blood] Reference

But it was no animal's fault in particular if he was built that way like the camel, ship of the desert, distilling grapes into potheen in his hump.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

"It's truth I'm telling, but this is me very last bottle of potheen, which I was keeping for me funeral; but there, his honor's wilcome to every drain of it.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Light O' the Morning] Reference

The rest of the inmates who were still on foot had evidently imbibed a larger amount of the potheen than their heads could stand, she herself being even more genial than usual.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paddy Finn] Reference

"'Och, yer honor? he's gone to get some potheen for the wake.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Willis the Pilot] Reference

Begorra, it's the Duchess's meal as makes mighty poor potheen. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference

"Janet," called out Sir George, "you've been caught making potheen!.    From Wordnik.com.  [All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches] Reference

"dry" principles alone robbed us of more than "one drop o 'potheen" whose birth the light of the moon had witnessed.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell] Reference

But it was no animal’s fault in particular if he was built that way like the camel, ship of the desert, distilling grapes into potheen in his hump.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

"This question was answered by a universal 'Yes;' and by way of clenching the affair, I ordered a couple of gallons of the stiffest potheen in the house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Willis the Pilot] Reference

"Yes, I'll get into bed; and I'll take a little of your potheen -- very, very weak, if you'll mix it for me -- and I'll have some of the bacon and potatoes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Light O' the Morning] Reference

"Why, principally oysters, and lobsters, and turtles, sarved up in their shells -- and plenty of good potheen to drink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children] Reference

It is a hard matter, when one meets a boy from Old Ireland, to refuse jist a sip of the potheen for the sake of gintility! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Rocky Mountains] Reference

"Captain, dear," he said, turning round with a comical look as he reached the gangway, "ye haven't got a bottle of potheen, the raal cratur, have ye?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charley Laurel A Story of Adventure by Sea and Land] Reference

And ye'll pay the potheen?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Humorous Verse] Reference

And ye ’ll pay the potheen?.    From Wordnik.com.  [0 1711. The Recruit by Robert William Chambers. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900] Reference

To thrate you to a potheen glass—.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Peeler and the Goat] Reference

“The local equivalent of potheen.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Died in the Wool]

For a cup of potheen or a tankard av shtout.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wit of Women Fourth Edition] Reference

"Musha! but it's potheen.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Shifting Winds A Tough Yarn] Reference

‘Eggs potatoes and bacon buttermilk, and potheen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kellys and the O'Kellys] Reference