It was likewise a source of great satisfaction to the two gentlemen to behold a buffet well stored with wine and spirits, amongst which latter the Captain had no difficulty in recognising some poteen of the real orthodox colour.
He was still the terrible Captain O’Blunderbuss--ready to exchange shots with any one and on all occasions--and more devoted to poteen than ever.
Would you go making murder in this place, and it piled with poteen for our drink to-night?
That's a man is going to make a marriage with the daughter of this house, a place with fine trade, with a license, and with poteen too.
You've a right to be destroyed indeed, with your walking, and fighting, and facing the sun (giving him poteen from a stone jar she has brought in.
The peelers is fearing him, and if you'd that lad in the house there isn't one of them would come smelling around if the dogs itself were lapping poteen from the dungpit of the yard.
There's poetry talk for a girl you'd see itching and scratching, and she with a stale stink of poteen on her from selling in the shop.
They learned how to makepoteen in little stills, after the Irish fashion, and to defend their stills from intrusive foreigners, also after the Irish fashion.
And a drop of poteen is a wonderful thing to drive away the melancholy thoughts that haunt and bother so many of us.
I will place the kettle on the hob," said Micus, "for 'tis true courage we will want to put into our hearts with a good drop of poteen this blessed night.
Av the poteen held out, Owen dear, ye wouldn't have had much trouble; but he can drink two quarts before he loses his strength.
Tis your own case, only worse," said the other, with a drunken laugh, for the poteen had already affected his head.
Musht Poteen or the Pig Be the first or the last on my plate?
Teddy Phats I think nothing at all about, for the poor, misshapen vagabone will distil poteen for any one that employs him.
Simply, he wants to know if I'd buy a keg of Poteen which, it seems, he has to sell.
So," said I, "you think that a love of drinking poteen is a sign of talent in a school-master?
Whatever Brady's usual habits of christening his poteen might have been, that which he now placed before them was good.
Send me that poteen you spoke of, and ignore the Bills against these M'Caffreys.
They are celebrated distillers of poteen whiskey, but are not rich.
Her story was told by a Sergeant of Police, and formed a painful illustration of the poteentrade in the mountains.
They resented heartily the King's levy of tax upon the poteenwhich they had learned to make from their adopted Irish brothers.
In some such way the making of poteen and feuds were linked hand-in-hand long before the Anglo-Celtic and Anglo-Saxon set foot in the wilderness of America.
Their poteen (whiskey) craft, handed down by their Scotch-Irish ancestors, survives today in what outlanders term moonshining.
Musha, but it's dry I am gettin' with the thoughts of the punch and the poteen negus.
I brought the prisoner to the barrack and have here the poteen that changed him from a law-abiding townsman into a fiend incarnate.
He comes from Castletownballymacreedy, where they make the best poteenin Ireland.
We have only the prisoner's word that the poteen was purchased at my establishment, but the probability is that he was only suffering from its ill effects when he imagined that I was the one who supplied it.
We have proved that poteen was found in the prisoner's house, and if he did not make it himself, where then did he get it from?
The sergeant then places the bottle of poteen on the counter, looks very hard at it, pretends to faint from sudden weakness, and asks for a drink of water) Can I have a little water, if you please?
The prisoner has stated that he purchased poteenat my premises, but what reliance can we place on the word of a man who is addicted to drinking poteen?
Applause, which is suppressed) To charge Mr. Fennell with drinking poteen is equally absurd.
That Mr. Fennell was what we would call a model husband, before he touched this poteengoes without saying.
Was there a better maker of poteen in the County Cork than my own father, rest his soul!
The reiterated and re-reiterated offer of goat's milk and poteen became exasperating; the bodyguard of these pertinacious women that could not be shaken off was most annoying.
That heroine's modern representative expects everyone to take a dose of goat's milk in poteen from her, and leave some gratuity in return.
A Schoolmaster: A boy told me last night of two men that went with poteen to the Island of Aran.
And when he got home he went up to a house there beyond, where the old woman used to be selling poteen on the sly.
The rain continues; but this evening a number of young men were in the kitchen mending nets, and the bottle of poteen was drawn from its hiding-place.
One man told me of the poteen drinking that takes place at some funerals.
As they talked to me and gave me a little poteen and a little bread when they thought I was hungry, I could not help feeling that I was talking with men who were under a judgment of death.
To-day, before the hour for the funeral, poteen was served to a number of men who stood about upon the road, and a portion was brought to me in my room.
If they 're cows, begad they must have got at that sixty-three gallons of poteen you talked of; for they're all drunk.
I 've laughed more over red-herrings and poteen than I ever expect to do again over turtle and toquay.
The only at all unusual feature was Joe Denny, the blind fiddler, who had called in on his way home and had a drop of poteen and a farrel of wholemeal cake.
Ye should sind ould Gladstone an' Morley an' the other ould women to Carrignaheela till I give them a noggin' o' right poteen an' insinse thim into the way iv it.
He introduced a timprance lecturer that towld the boys the poteen was pizenin' thim, an' 'twas wather they must dhrink.
They take up both glasses at once, and after a loving sniff at the poteen they pour it slowly down, the shebeen stuff tasting like a torchlight procession.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poteen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
