Even arrack cannot supply the deficiencies of the amateur--as Tunstal was, and as he presently knew himself to be.
None had, though a boatman remembered landing the white tuan from the Lombock, and there was plain testimony that he had purchased a bottle ofarrack for three dollars and a half Singapore silver.
I think that, considering his constant advice to be temperate, he swallowed a very large quantity of arrack punch.
Footnote 22: Most probably what we now call arrack is here meant.
Arrack is consumed almost exclusively by the Chinese, and the manufacture of it is entirely in their hands.
Nothing remained then but to bring and fill the jars with water, and hang the skin bottles of arrack ready for the hand--to-morrow the leben.
The Batavian arrack is well known in the European market, and was at one time imported in considerable quantities into the continent of Europe.
Arrack is prepared by distillation: an inferior kind, made in a more simple and economical manner, is called chiu.
This grain is frequently fermented to form the basis, in combination with goor or half made sugar, of the common arrack of the natives, and in the hills is fermented into a kind of beer or sweet wort, drank warm.
They ate prodigiously, and each man drank enough arrack to intoxicate any three Europeans, without appearing to feel the slightest ill effects from the spirit.
While he was speaking, several seamen came out of an arrack shop some way off.
All English ships are allowed by the Government here half a leaguer of Arrack a day for ship's use per man; but boats are not suffered to bring the least thing off shore without being first severely searched.
Several of our men fell ill of Fevers, as they said, from drinking the Water of the Island; but as Captain Blokes opined, more from the effects of Arrack Punch at Eightpence a Gallon.
Money is unknown and valueless here--knives, cloth, and arrack forming the only medium of exchange, with tobacco for small coin.
The chief luxury of the Aru people, besides betel and tobacco, is arrack (Java rum), which the traders bring in great quantities and sell very cheap.
Sura was simply arrack prepared from rice-flour, or rice-beer.
The ambrosia of the gods is their Brahma, and on earth it is arrack, and because one attains the character of a god (suratva) therefore is arrack called sura.
At one time the arrack or rice-beer liquor was also considered by the Hindus as holy and purifying.
On that he had arrack and tej presented to all of us, himself setting the example.
Though we did our best to dissuade him from such a step, he soon afterwards came; accompanied by some slaves carrying arrack and tej.
In front of the platform are placed a sickle, sticks, and arrack (liquor).
They are said to be very partial to toddy and arrack (alcoholic liquor).
The more prosperous members of the community are toddy and arrack (liquor) shop-keepers, and the poorer members extract toddy from the palm-trees.
The Gamallas are a class of toddy-drawers, and distillers and vendors of arrackin the Telugu country and are supposed to be Idigas who have bettered themselves, and separated from that caste.
On the karmandhiram, or day of the final death ceremonies, cooked rice, vegetables, fruit, and arrack are offered to the deceased.
I am going to the dining-room to get some arrack for your tea.
On the Indian continent arrack is made from palm toddy, rice and the refuse of the sugar refineries, but mainly from the flowers of the muohwa or mahua tree (Bassia latifolia).
But his rage had not died in him, and more arrack made him mad; else why should he have done the foolish thing that followed?
Piroo was in his element, and sang and danced with great success, for the arrack was in his veins, and at such times he could be the antipodes of his morose self.
The usual price of a quart of arrack was then eight shillings, and six shillings for a quart of rum made into punch.
At our request through the scrivano, the governor granted leave for a Jew, nominated for the purpose to brew arrack at our house, but forbid any to be made elsewhere.
The arrack and sugar that are consumed here are brought from Batavia.
The Khan consumes not less than a pint of raw arrack during the dinner hour, and, not unnaturally, finds himself at the end a trifle funny and venturesome.
When asked why they don't use it in moderation, they reply, " What is the good of drinking arrack unless one drinks enough to become drunk and happy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "arrack" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
