 | 1795 - 94 pages
...application; one recommended oil, another water, but all agreed that wine was best for drawing out the fire; and a glass of sherry was brought me from the sideboard,...strongest brandy, with which I filled my mouth, already llea'd and blistered; totally unused to every kind of ardent spirits, with my tongue, throat, and palate,... | |
 | Sydney Melmoth - 1805 - 368 pages
...; one recommended oil, another water, but all agreed that wine was best for drawing out the fire ; and a glass of sherry was brought me from the side-board,...flea'd and blistered; totally unused to every kind of ardent spirits, with my tongue, throat, and palate, as raw as beef, what could I do ? I could not... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1811 - 432 pages
...; one recommended oil, another water, but all agreed that 'wine was best for drawing out the fire ; and a glass of sherry was brought me from the sideboard,...strongest brandy, with which I filled my mouth, already flayed and blistered ; totally unused to every kind of ardent spirits, with my tongue, throat, and... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1811 - 424 pages
...; one recommended oil, another water, but all agreed that wine was best for drawing out the fire ; and a glass of sherry was brought me from the sideboard, which I snaf. cited up with eagerness; but, oh! how shall I tell the sequel? whether the butler, by accident,... | |
 | 1818 - 384 pages
...; one recommended oil, another watei\ but all agreed that wine was best for drawing out the fire ; and a glass of sherry was brought me from the sideboard,...flead and blistered. Totally unused to every kind of ardent spirits, -with my tongue, throat, and palate, as raw as beef, what could I do ? I could nut... | |
 | 1818 - 596 pages
...— one recommended oil, another water, but all agreed that wine was best for drawing out the lire; and a glass of sherry was brought me from the sideboard, which 1 snatched up with eagerness: — but, oh! how shall I tell the sequel? — Whether the butler by accident... | |
 | 1822 - 494 pages
...one recommended oil, another water, but all agreed that wine was the best for drawing out the fire, and a glass of sherry was brought me from the sideboard,...strongest brandy, with which I filled my mouth, already flayed and blistered ; totally unused to every kind of ardent spirits, with my tongue, throat, and... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1824 - 380 pages
...: one recommended oil, another water; but all agreed that wine was best for drawing out the fire ; and a glass of sherry was brought me from the sideboard,...flead and blistered. Totally unused to every kind of ardent spirits, with my tongue, throat, and palate, as raw as beef, what could I do ? I could not... | |
 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1824 - 476 pages
...applications; one recommended oil, another water, but all agreed that wine was best for drawing out the fire ; and a glass of sherry was brought me from -the side-board,...strongest brandy, with which I filled my mouth, already pealed and blistered ; totally unused to every kind of ardent spirits, with my tongue, throat, and... | |
 | 1831 - 196 pages
...application; one recommended oil, another water, but all agreed that wine was best for drawing out the fire; and a glass of Sherry was brought me from the side-board, which I snatched up with eagerness; but O! how shall I tell the sequel? Whether the butler by accident mistook, or purposely designed to make... | |
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... fire, and a glass of sherry was brought me from the sideboard, which I snatched up with eagerness ; but, oh ! how shall I tell the sequel? whether the butler by accident mistook,, or purposely designed to drive me mad, he gave me the strongest brandy,... 
