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Example sentences for "blue ruin"

  • Blue ruin is the mortal enemy of unpleasant thinking—and that's why we all takes to it as nat'ral as one does to opium when he's accustomed to it.

  • This was Pat Mulligan, and he was busily engaged in dealing out the delectable nectar called 'blue ruin' at the very moderate rate of one penny per gill.

  • Half pints of 'blue ruin' were dispensed to the thirsty throng, and in a short time all, with two or three exceptions, were extremely drunk.

  • The knowing Kids and dashing Swells are for a drap of blue ruin, to keep all things in good twig.

  • Whether the blue devils were flying around or not, I could not exactly discover, but the whiskey and blue ruin were evidently powerful in their effects.

  • Nor could they escape the Fish-wife without becoming participators in the half pint of blue ruin.

  • The Swell chaffs it as "Blue Ruin" to elevate his notions.

  • I have known her to drink thirty-six half-quarterns of gin in a day; it is from her love of blue ruin she derives her name.

  • A tumbler of blue ruin, fill, fill for me!

  • But because they're late, Meg, it's no reason why we shouldn't have a drop of blue ruin.

  • He wishes he was back here at Blue Ruin, where a man can go out doors for half an hour without getting ostracized by the elements.

  • There are two or three men in this place that will bully or bust everything they can get into, and they have perforated more outrages on Blue Ruin than we are entitled to put up with.

  • He's the one that I said could give Blue Ruin ten pounds.

  • Now, in that box yonder, there is an animal who, in my opinion, could give Blue Ruin ten pounds; but you shall judge for yourself presently.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    blue clay; blue cloth; blue color; blue colour; blue cross; blue eyes; blue fire; blue flame; blue glass; blue grass; blue isosceles triangle based; blue light; blue morocco; blue rectangle; blue ribbon; blue serge; blue steel; considerable distances; could feel; each case; plain terms; twenty four; what relates; wherein the; who can; yonder hill