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Example sentences for "port wine"

  • Or you may make a sauce by flavouring your melted butter with a glass of port wine, and an anchovy boned and minced.

  • Melt two ounces of butter that has been rolled in flour, in a half pint of water, and mix with it two large glasses of port wine, two table-spoonfuls of catchup, and two anchovies.

  • Pour into the bottom of the pan a little water, and add a jill of port wine, and a piece of butter rolled in flour.

  • Then add a tumbler and a half, or six wine glasses of claret or port wine.

  • Let it boil up, then add a glass of port wine, a little lemon juice, and a teaspoonful of salt; simmer a few minutes.

  • In the mean time it was necessary to sacrifice something to gentility, and therefore they sat over their port wine.

  • Mrs. Furnival in discussing her grievances would attribute them mainly to port wine.

  • When the invalid may take it, a little lemon-juice gives this pleasant drink in illness a very nice flavour; as does also a small quantity of port wine.

  • Take the inside of a large sirloin, soak it in 1 glass of port wine and 1 glass of vinegar, mixed, and let it remain for 2 days.

  • After stewing the chicken for a quarter of an hour, make a rich gravy from the stock, and add a few mushrooms and two spoonfuls of port wine; boil all up well, and pour over and around the chicken.

  • Pawkins's port wine may, perhaps, have had something to do with the resolution.

  • Then I drink three or four glasses of port wine--" "And feel sleepy afterwards?

  • If liked, a glass of port wine may be poured over the duck.

  • A glass of port wine may be added to the gravy if liked.

  • Thicken it with the flour, and add, if liked, a glass of port wine.

  • If liked, a glass of port wine may be added.

  • The usual sauce for baked salmon is melted butter, flavoured with the juice of a lemon, and a glass of port wine, stirred in just before the butter is taken from the fire.

  • There must also be heaters under each plate, and currant jelly on both sides of the table, to mix with the gravy, on your plate; claret or port wine also, for those who prefer it as an improvement to the gravy.

  • Having trussed the ducks, put into each a thick piece of soft bread that has been soaked in port wine.

  • It appears to me to be unequal and unjust that French imitations of port wine should be subjected to a duty of 15 cents, while the more valuable article from Portugal should pay a duty of 6 cents only per gallon.

  • But I was not so afraid of him now, for we were in a public place; and the three glasses of port wine had, you see, given me courage.

  • There was, I have said, a bottle of port wine before us--I should say a decanter.

  • The captain seemed inclined to go upon deck again, but controlling himself he answered: "Port wine.

  • Excellent; there is port wine in the cellar of Monsieur le Baron de Bracieux.

  • Know that Monsieur de Bracieux is rich enough to drink a tun of port wine, even if obliged to pay a pistole for every drop.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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