He will be fetching old claret from the cellar in no time!. From Wordnik.com. [Jackson just wanted to say hello...] Reference
Behind the vague name claret, some good Northwest wines. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Fake Conservatives, Fake Economists, and Fake Medicine. It's All Part of Convincing You to Believe ...] Reference
The drink was the same fiery distillation that was known as claret, sherry, brandy, rum, whisky, or whatever else a role might call for. From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
He had dwelt upon this very book learning his letters and numbers: "claret" and "malmsey" were among the first words he could read. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Queen]
Of pure English claret is left in your corpus. From Wordnik.com. [Epistle from Tom Cribb to Big Ben, Concerning some Foul Play in a Late Transaction] Reference
(UTC) ah. what about the truly brit "claret", unknown to us 'Merkins?. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
This is not to suggest that a bottle of "claret", as all Australian red wine was then called, stood on the family table as I grew up. From Wordnik.com. [New Statesman] Reference
Burgundy wines, as Bordeaux is that of the claret merchants. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
Once that bottle of claret was a bargain; now it's a giveaway. From Wordnik.com. [All Aboard The Booze Cruise] Reference
This piece of candour, however, was probably owing to the claret. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
Bar ... they drank a most enormous quantity of champagne and claret. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
Would you like, reader, to know my recipe for the favourite claret cup?. From Wordnik.com. [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference
The sun was a deep claret, spent and misshapen, with all the fury of a sigh. From Wordnik.com. [The Hole Between Them] Reference
Passing her closely, I drifted alongside, and begged the commander for a bottle of claret. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Declaring he was roasted alive and dying of thirst, he finished the bottle of iced claret. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
The proportion of logwood to madder can be so adjusted as to give various shades of claret to purple. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer] Reference
During the repast the girl scarcely spoke; the capon she hardly touched; the claret she merely sipped. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
The decor is endearingly ancient (think naff frescoes, fake flowers and claret-coloured paper napkins). From Wordnik.com. [Love is in the (open) air] Reference
The brilliant opal on his right hand and multi-facet claret-colored ruby on his left were in matched settings. From Wordnik.com. [Seventy-two Hours or Less] Reference
Our breakfast was as cold as could be served in such a climate, but I made it palatable with a case of claret. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Give me a good day's hunting, and some good claret after it -- nothing can be simpler, and I'm really quite contented. '. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
Woods not only failed to defend his title, he really never mounted a serious challenge to retain the treasured claret jug. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: A Rival For Tiger] Reference
B. Pond was really a fair-sized salmon fly -- turkey wing, orange body, and claret hackles, with the gold tip of the Professor. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
The bloated, red moon glared at him from the claret coloured sky as he headed towards oblivion like dirty dishwater down a plughole. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Blooded Moon by Paul D. Brazill] Reference
So I had nothing for it but to eat and drink as plentifully as I could, and very thankful I was that the claret was tolerably sound. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
We retired once more to his mahogany; and, under the spell of my chieftain's claret and sea-yarns, I was soon lapped in delicious sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
The difference of price, as stated in Spanish coinage, between a bottle of claret and a whisky-and-soda, might have puzzled some people; but. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
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