XXIII-84] Verjuice is a kind of grape, very acid, and which never gets perfectly ripe.
The suc of verjuice is used in medicine and culinary preparation as an astringent.
The maniac made a face as one that drinketh verjuice suddenly.
Alfred pulled a face as of one that drinketh verjuice unawares; but let it pass: hypercriticism was not his cue just then.
To house as spectres in a sepulchre Under this black stone heap, the street's disgrace, Grimmest as that is of the gruesome town, And here pick garbage on a pewter plate, Or cough at verjuice dripped from earthenware?
Rightly with Tsaddik wert thou now incensed Had he been witting of the mischief wrought When, for elixir, verjuice he dispensed!
Their purchase--honey in report-- Proved gall and verjuice at first sip!
I wish my Cousin Verjuice hadn't left us--she should embrace you.
Miss Verjuice has just been arraigning me on our mutual attachment now; but I have informed her of our real views and the Purposes for which our Geniuses at present co-operate.
She appeared now as the concentrated essence of verjuice or tartaric acid, and ruled the whole house with a rod of iron, becoming in truth the master of all.
See how calmly and placidly Miss Dissembler smiles with elegant ease, whilst Madame Verjuice pierces her little writhing heart through and through with a malicious sarcasm that wounds her to the core.
I will leave all our horses in pledge with you, and pay for your nasty verjuice as if it were Falernian.
I will sing a bawdy song, sir, because your verjuice face is melancholy, to make liquor go down glib.
So, under these circumstances, he proposed, was accepted, and married, and brought home his beautiful young bride to reside with Miss Verjuice at the Willows.
The Verjuice of Crab-Apples should be made of the wild Crab, which produces Thorns on its Branches, and brings a small round Apple, such as are common to be planted for Fences.
Mr. Rogers turned to her with a verjuice smile, and said, "I was just remarking that in whatever part of the world I had seen this building I should have guessed to whose taste I might attribute its erection.
