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Example sentences for "potheen"

Lexicographically close words:
potestatis; poteva; potful; poth; pothecary; pother; potherb; potholes; pothooks; pothouse
  1. Oh, they'd soon knock all that out of him; besides, isn't he one of these potheen boys?

  2. It was at that time considered that no revenue officer would notice potheen if he met it, as a guest.

  3. This man had learnt that potheen was being made at Aughacashel, and, dressed in the uniform of one of the Revenue police, had led the men to Dan Kennedy's cabin.

  4. In all their Religious Solemnities, Potheen is said to be an indispensable requisite, and largely consumed.

  5. The furniture of this Caravansera consisted of a large iron Pot, two oaken Tables, two Benches, two Chairs, and a Potheen Noggin.

  6. The men's nerves were on edge with potheen and excitement, and they had not been at table five minutes before quarrelling broke out at the lower end of the board.

  7. If The McMurrough chose to imprison his strange and unpopular kinsman, it was nothing to them; nor a matter into which gentlemen eating at his table and drinking his potheen and claret were called upon to peer too closely.

  8. But it was no animal's fault in particular if he was built that way like the camel, ship of the desert, distilling grapes into potheen in his hump.

  9. We've found three half-barrels of porter under the bed in the room over there, and about two gallons of potheen hid under fishing nets.

  10. Be the potheen of ould Ireland--I did that same business as nate and clane as iver such a thing was setthled in this wor-r-rld!

  11. Potheen for me, if ye plaze,” said the gallant officer.

  12. The fare was by no means to be despised, nor the wine either, nor the potheen clandestinely distilled in the mountains, which I here tasted for the first time genuine and unadulterated.

  13. The rest of the inmates who were still on foot had evidently imbibed a larger amount of the potheen than their heads could stand, she herself being even more genial than usual.

  14. The teapot having taken to leaking, as Biddy said, she had made the tea in the potheen jug.

  15. The potheen and the potatoes--what would Ireland be without 'em?

  16. That will warm you up; and I have a little potheen in a black bottle, too.

  17. After the election, our men were highly respected by the inhabitants; the old women brought the men bottles of "potheen whiskey" in their milk cans.

  18. I had never tasted beer previous to this, although I had often tasted "potheen whiskey.

  19. The corporal having posted me at eleven o'clock that night, all the ghost stories I had heard in the "potheen still house" in Leitrim, came up in my mind as flush as when they were told.

  20. Have ye no potheen in the house, Sir Christopher-r?

  21. Is it you, Sir-r Christopher, that don't know what rale Irish potheen is?

  22. She's the most amiable lady I ever knew and takes her potheen without any nonsense.

  23. I was—what with botheration and potheen and the candle's going out; and divil a hayp'orth did I drame where I was, till ye powred the wather all over me.


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