The palm-wine, here called “Msámbá,” and on the lower river.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference

They soak with palm-wine every day; they indulge in rum and absinthe, and the wealthy affect so-called.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference

The spathe that encloses the yet-unopened flowers is made to yield a favorite beverage called palm-wine, or, more familiarly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Trees at Elmridge] Reference

In the larger villages palm-wine is common; it is not unpleasant to the taste, though too sweet and thick, to be drank in any considerable quantity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Nubia] Reference

Toddy or palm-wine they drink copiously at their feasts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants] Reference

"Thy palm-wine and thy dates must be coming to an end," said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Two Captains] Reference

I tried palm-wine at a pretty village near Madras, where I slept one night.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1] Reference

The people drink palm-wine at different hours of the day, according to taste.    From Wordnik.com.  [To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative] Reference

Richard Bona draws on the palm-wine guitar style - very old school and very sweet.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News]

They gave us also some palm-wine; we did not ask how it was made, but it tasted very well.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Lieutenants] Reference

Friend Elephant promised to do so, and went to look for it at the house of a maker of palm-wine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Talking Beasts] Reference

The canoe-men, seeing pots of palm-wine on the banks, insisted upon landing to slake their eternal thirst.    From Wordnik.com.  [To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative] Reference

Kallolo had also manufactured some palm-wine and several refreshing beverages from fruit, chiefly of palms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco] Reference

The Portuguese use the palm-wine as yeast, and it makes bread so light, that it melts in the mouth like froth.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864] Reference

It was, indeed, the true palm-wine, which is as pleasant as champaign, and, taken moderately, a great restorative.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island] Reference

They soak with palm-wine every day; they indulge in rum and absinthe, and the wealthy affect so-called Cognac, with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1] Reference

Paragua paid everything, and moreover voluntarily added coconuts, bananas, and sugar-cane jars filled with palm-wine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Indolence of the Filipino] Reference

One reason for this is the fact that these Filipinos distil palm-wine, which will soon ruin the wine-trade of Spain in Nueva.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 18 of 55 1617-1620 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century] Reference

When I was a child, I had a notion of its being the most exquisite of treats to eat plantains and yams, and to drink palm-wine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1] Reference

Page 8 of rice and other grain, plenty of fruit and roots, palm-wine, and oil, and fish in great abundance, with much tame and wild cattle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thoughts upon slavery,] Reference

We took the opportunity when he was in a good humour, having just quaffed a few bowls of a sort of palm-wine of which he was especially fond.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Two Supercargoes Adventures in Savage Africa] Reference

From the same tree, palm-wine and sugar are made, and the common thatch for houses formed of the leaves lasts six or seven years without removal.    From Wordnik.com.  [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] Reference

After being pounded in their long mortars, it is ground fine, by hand, between two stones like those used by painters, and is mixed with palm-wine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of an African Cruiser] Reference

We were first conducted to the residence of King Queah, who received us courteously, regaled us with palm-wine, and inflicted a duck upon us by way of "dash.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of an African Cruiser] Reference

Large quantities of toddy, or palm-wine, are prepared from the juice, which, when boiled, yields very good palm sugar or jaggery, and also excellent sugar candy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture] Reference

You learn how the natives obtain sugar, palm-wine, and rubber; what is the use of the toucan's huge beak, and how plants secure the fertilisation of their flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference

At these stalls a hearty meal may be made for a penny, but we contented ourselves with drinking some sweet palm-wine, a most delicious beverage in the heat of the day.    From Wordnik.com.  [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] Reference

Even when Tom spoke to him he answered only in monosyllables, or did not answer at all, holding out the gourd which had been given him for a further supply of palm-wine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Two Supercargoes Adventures in Savage Africa] Reference

It was very evident they had not forgotten a supply of palm-wine, which they must have quaffed pretty freely, as ere long several of them got up and began dancing away furiously.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Two Supercargoes Adventures in Savage Africa] Reference

What feasts we shall enjoy, what bowls of palm-wine. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Two Supercargoes Adventures in Savage Africa] Reference

The palm-wine and the dates of the Arab will suffice for me for many a day to come. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Two Captains] Reference

And now let us drink each other's health in this palm-wine, "he said, producing a very nice-looking liquid from a huge shell.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Eastern Seas] Reference