Larry is not adverse to hanging out in a pub and has been known to quaff a beer or two. From LearnThat.org.
Verb (used with object) : We spent the whole evening quaffing ale. From Dictionary.com.
No one is foolish enough to quaff from the Columbia; but go ahead, be our guest. From Wordnik.com. [Getting to third base with our pristine Columbia Gorge (Jack Bog's Blog)] Reference
But we shall continue to so quaff, mostly because "quaff" is such a cool word to type. From Wordnik.com. [Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [147] -- Democrats Fighting The Good Fight] Reference
And bids me quaff, which is the Fate of all. From Wordnik.com. [Maurine and Other Poems] Reference
Fan the scorched cheek and quaff the bright champagne. From Wordnik.com. [The Minstrel A Collection of Poems] Reference
That my dust may be pleasured to quaff thy brave blood. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
Who sat in state to dine off plate, and quaff the rosy wine?. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
The coffee was dire, first bad quaff in this wonderful land. From Wordnik.com. [The Great California Game]
This is the mellowed draught we quaff our longings to assuage. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference
quaff, oh quaff this kind of nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Senators Clinton and Schumer Read "The Raven" - January 30, 2001] Reference
Let me quaff the luscious perfume of the smiling, glistering scene. From Wordnik.com. [The Minstrel A Collection of Poems] Reference
My favorite quaff at Forbidden Island is the eponymous house special. From Wordnik.com. [Tiki Doesn't Have to Be Tacky] Reference
All being seated the meal begins with a goodly quaff of homemade brew. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
Mr. Maddledock took up his wine-glass and drained it at a single quaff. From Wordnik.com. [Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life] Reference
But does the quest for the perfect quaff come with another kind of price?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 28, 2006] Reference
And suddenly, as he spoke, a tiny surfer shot through the wave and a quaff. From Wordnik.com. [Curious George's Trip to Hell] Reference
I know that once I quaff my first Barbaresco, things will look rosier to me. From Wordnik.com. [The Winter Blues] Reference
"Take some -- 'quaff, oh, quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget thy lost Lenore.'". From Wordnik.com. [The American Baron] Reference
A Gibson — the perfect quaff for someone hurtling in a Northwesterly direction. From Wordnik.com. [A Distinctly Western Cocktail] Reference
The lute I thrum, and quaff my wine, joyful at heart that ye are meet to be my mates. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
And though the cartoon quaff may be too boozy by far, at least it's no Gargle Blaster. From Wordnik.com. [Some Cocktails Are Supposed to Taste Funny] Reference
Every phantom of beauty that dances in it is a devil; and yet, millions quaff, and with. From Wordnik.com. [Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales] Reference
I swear in the name of Truth, slaying Dussasana in battle, I shall quaff his life-blood!. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
But there is no doubt that many outside the U.S. regard it as an iconically American quaff. From Wordnik.com. [Making a Bad Cocktail Better] Reference
Pyrrhic phalanx, a phalanx such as was used by Pyrrhus, king of Epirus. quaff (kwaf), drink. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
Classmates would quaff alcohol in their rooms before roaming the campus on weekends, she recalls. From Wordnik.com. [Bid to Reconsider Drinking Age] Reference
And Alfre, Duncan and I got to enjoy a well deserved quaff and eat some food ... or so we thought. From Wordnik.com. [Roderick Spencer: Notes on Double Handbagging at the Golden Globes] Reference
While you're there, pick up a fresh, flowery bottle of sparkling Suffolk brut to quaff as you wander. From Wordnik.com. [Love is in the (open) air] Reference
From his bitter task of trying to quaff the stream that ever receded from the parched and burning lips. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Myths] Reference
Others, lacking his intellectual gifts, prefer to quaff pints of mild on their way to watch rugby league. From Wordnik.com. [What on earth is a ‘professional Northerner’?] Reference
Unfortunately, these dessert wines are too sweet for me to quaff anything more than the smallest of glasses. From Wordnik.com. [Thinking Inside the Box] Reference
We put the cup of pleasure to our lips, and quaff, instead of cooling draughts, the fiery flashes of searing excess. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866] Reference
It is improper to quaff the blood of even a stranger, what then need be said about quaffing the blood of ones own self?. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Inner Temple; which, by the way, stands on the very site where in past days the Knights Templars used to laugh and quaff. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
Hunt has given English readers a quaff of Redi in his rollicking translation of "Bacchus in Tuscany," which is steeped in. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866] Reference
These variations are not to be confused with Brazil's other common cachaça quaff, the Batida, a fruit-smoothie sort of drink. From Wordnik.com. [The Cocktail of Carnaval] Reference
When Bhima had assumed that form, people, beholding him quaff his enemy's blood, fled away with Citrasena, saying unto one another, 'This. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
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