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Example sentences for "strong beer"

  • There were eight of them, six men and two boys; and I gave them two quartern loaves, two pounds of cheese, and eight pints of strong beer.

  • He might take a cup of strong beer to himself, when they had none; but that was pretty nearly all the difference in their manner of living.

  • Would not a good tankard of strong beer, nutmeg and sugar, do better, feather, with a toast and some cheese?

  • Mix an ounce of saltpetre with a quarter of a pound of bay salt, the same quantity of common salt, and also of coarse sugar, and a quart of strong beer.

  • Put a pint of cider and a bottle of strong beer into a large punch bowl, grate in a nutmeg, and sweeten it.

  • The revenue suffers, because a larger quantity of beer is sold as strong beer; that is, at a price exceeding the price of table beer, without the strong beer duty being paid.

  • In the next place, the brewer suffers, because the retailer gets table or mild beer, and retails it as strong beer.

  • It is by no means too strong an expression to speak of the beer as profitless, for this reason: A gallon of strong beer contains a quarter of a pound of nourishment, bought at the cost of a couple of shillings.

  • A pint of strong beer is in itself no very great thing.

  • A pint of strong beer cannot be bought at a less cost than threepence.

  • At a Somersetshire hunt dinner, seventy years since, thirteen toasts used to be drunk in strong beer; then every one did as he liked.

  • French beans, with two pounds of butter, a quartern loaf, and to drink a gallon of strong beer!

  • Strong Beer, of an excellent quality and flavour, brewed from the extract of the Hop only, rejecting the substance.

  • Some of the miscellaneous election expenses noted in his ledger are: 54 galls of strong beer 52 dro.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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