It's made with a sinister-looking black liquor called arrack. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
They drink like fish, and manufacture a bad kind of arrack, the pernicious effects of which were experienced by the. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
'arrack' liquor sales in their villages that were turning their husbands into alcoholics and impoverishing them further?. From Wordnik.com. [India eNews] Reference
Fermented toddy can be distilled to produce arrack. From Wordnik.com. [24 Commercialization of Fermented Foods in Sub-Saharan Africa] Reference
I could use it - only not arrack, if you don't mind! '. From Wordnik.com. [The Gates of Noon]
This is arrack, and this is rum, and this one is the brandy. From Wordnik.com. [An Enemy of the People] Reference
He forced Brick to drink some arrack, knowing how she hated it. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Fortress]
He drank the rest of his arrack and clapped his hands for more. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Tiger]
Faisal at the café makes an illicit arrack that can blind a horse. From Wordnik.com. [Absolute Friends]
In some unknown way one of them discovered a hogshead of arrack, the. From Wordnik.com. [All Aboard A Story for Girls] Reference
Anyway, it turned out that the arrack was primarily for her own benefit. From Wordnik.com. [Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates]
Going into the house again, I found a lamp and a bottle of arrack upset. From Wordnik.com. [The Malay Archipelago] Reference
Night had just fallen and Torrance uncorked a bottle of arrack and took a sip. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Fortress]
He drained his arrack, picked up his musket and followed Sharpe into the dusk. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Tiger]
Here we purchased a large quantity of arrack, and remained a considerable time. From Wordnik.com. [American Prisoners of the Revolution] Reference
Sharpe put the brush on top of his barrel of arrack and turned on the secretary. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Trafalgar]
It opens with an ominous announcement: Here beginneth the second bottle of arrack. From Wordnik.com. [Absolute Friends]
Drunk to it, we did, and not in arrack, neither, but in proper gentlemen's brandy. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Tiger]
I thought it safer to leave my cask of arrack securely placed in the fork of a tree. From Wordnik.com. [The Malay Archipelago] Reference
That's what our men want, Campbell, something that can be turned into rum or arrack. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Fortress]
Many were half drunk, for their officers had issued extra rations of arrack and rum. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Fortress]
A spirituous liquor is made in China from the grain of Rice, and bears the name "arrack.". From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
Morris hastily placed his cocked hat over a tin mug that Baird suspected was full of arrack. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Tiger]
He may procure plenty of arrack and white wine; also raisins, and dried fruits of other sorts. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Botany Bay] Reference
I've got brandy, wine, rum and arrack that needs drinking before those French buggers find it. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Trafalgar]
The two men met at Syud Sevajee's tents, and Sharpe had given his old friend a bottle of arrack. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Fortress]
Trees became more numerous, good large ones, chiefly arrack and acacia, and a few small fan-palms. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Arabia] Reference
His own estate that had once been sold by John Randolph to Thomas Jefferson for a bowl of arrack punch ----!. From Wordnik.com. [The Trumpeter Swan] Reference
Just for pouring down him a few tumblerfuls of a mixture of arrack and spud-spirit that he'd bought for his damned Caliban!. From Wordnik.com. [Ambrotox and Limping Dick] Reference
Already sedated by dinner, arrack, and the act of love most naughty, Switters could barely read those prognostications without yawning. From Wordnik.com. [Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates]
In 1952 in wine distilleries in Sri Lanka, over 49 million liters of toddy was fermented to give 4.5 million proof liters of arrack (2). From Wordnik.com. [24 Commercialization of Fermented Foods in Sub-Saharan Africa] Reference
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