I allow a double Quantity of Malt to my small Beer, and set it a running for twelve Days to every one that calls for it.
Nobody affects the character of liberality and good fellowship, by being profuse of a liquor which is as cheap as small beer.
In the country brewery for common country sale, a quarter of malt is seldom brewed into less than two barrels of strong, and one barrel of small beer; frequently into two barrels and a-half of strong beer.
Purser's swipes; small beer: so termed on board the king's ships, where it is furnished by the purser.
As for the dragoons, they sprawled and lounged about the kitchen, playing cards or toss, and grumbling at the quantity and quality of the Greenwood brew of small beer, till Sukey was wellnigh desperate.
The two troopers were already stretched at full length on the floor, their feet to the fire, while the sergeant sat by the table, with a pitcher of small beer and a pipe to solace his particular hours of guard mount over the prisoner.
He never goes to a Tavern but about Business; and when he is alone, Small Beer or Water are the Liquors he chuses.
Those who kept great Stores of Small Beer by them, without making use of it, were generally envied, and at the same Time very odious to the Publick; and No body was easy that had not enough of it to come to his own Share.
Only if it is read as a satire on rigorist sermons can there be full appreciation of the cleverness of the "parable of small beer" which Mandeville, with obvious contentment with his craftsmanship, reproduces in the Letter to Dion (pp.
He was still alive, and was heard to mutter, in a low voice, "Small beer, small beer.
This illness cost him an expense of 750 guineas for physicians; and, after all, his cure was accomplished merely by a draught of small beer.
Some said he would eat what no labourer or servant would touch; and, as he had stated, drank the same smallest of small beer.
Coarse cold bacon and bread, cheese, and a jar of small beer, or a tin can of weak cold tea, were all they had to supply them with fresh strength for further labour.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small beer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
