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And so, knowing his captain's speech, swollen with pride in his own prowess, Dag Daughtry would continue his ship-work with extra vigour and punish a seventh quart for the day in advertisement of his remarkable constitution.

Brissenden never arrived without his quart of whiskey, and when they dined together down-town, he drank Scotch and soda throughout the meal.

Many a man, as every doctor knows, has died of the sudden impact of a quart or more of whisky.

Champagne sold at from forty to fifty dollars a quart, and canned oyster stew at fifteen dollars.

A roar of delight from his audience, with stamping of feet and beating of blackjacks against the ground, showed how thoroughly the song was to their taste, while John modestly retired into a quart pot, which he drained in four giant gulps.

Livesey were seated together, finishing a quart of ale with a toast in it, before they should go aboard the schooner on a visit of inspection.

"But you'll turn back and have a quart of beer wi' me on the strength o't, Pa'son Tringham?

A single plant of this species will give eight or ten quarts of milk per day.

Most statistical tables are parchingly dry in the reading; not so in the present case, however, where the reader is flooded with whole pipes, barrels, quarts, and gills of good gin and good cheer.

"With less than three reals, six quarts of it may be made," said Don Quixote.

The youth went with his friend, feeling a desire to throw his heated body onto the stream and, soaking there, drink quarts.

Jack went out to get a napoleon changed, so as to have money suited to the general cheapness of things, and came back and said he bad "swamped the bank, had bought eleven quarts of coin, and the head of the firm had gone on the street to negotiate for the balance of the change." I bought nearly half a pint of their money for a shilling myself.