Wines

Examples

• Wines, currants, and wrought silks, were the only goods which did not fall within this rule, having other and more advantageous allowances. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• About 1/4 to 3/4 of an ounce per 50 gallons will be found sufficient for most wines. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• In tea and distilled spirits there has been a decrease, while the consumption of wines is the smallest of all and has varied but little. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Previously wines had been preserved by the addition of alcohol, which made them both dearer and more detrimental to health. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• They'll have Italian wines at a hotel this size. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Might not the acidity, bitte rness, defective flavor, which were threatening the foreign sale of French wines, be owing to ferments? Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Such are, for example, the duties upon foreign wines, upon coffee, chocolate, tea, sugar, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The banquet was crowned with the richest wines, both foreign and domestic. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Therefore, for totally different reasons, her food was as poor as Mrs. Archer's, and her wines did nothing to redeem it. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• If you gave up your highly-spiced dishes, your strong wines, your late hours, your breathing of poisonous air, you would be as healthy as I am. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• He shaded the dinner, cooled the wines, chilled the gravy, and blighted the vegetables. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Upon this the tiny yeast plants in the dough feed, and, as in the case of the wines, ferment the sugar, producing carbon dioxide and alcohol. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Malt is consumed, not only in the brewery of beer and ale, but in the manufacture of low wines and spirits. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• O, it is a rich abbey-stede, and they do live upon the fat, and drink the sweet wines upon the lees, these good fathers of Jorvaulx. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Nearly all patent medicines contain some alcohol, and in many, the quantity of alcohol is far in excess of that found in the strongest wines. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• We drank dry white capri iced in a bucket; although we tried many of the other wines, fresa, barbera and the sweet white wines. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The following simple and cheap preparation, when mixed according to directions, will produce artificial cold sufficient to cool wines, etc. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• All her hopes on earth were centred in her child, who slept on a bed of down and drank only of the most delicate wines. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Both low wines and proof spirits are, to prevent frauds, now rated according to what they gauge in the wash. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• They had no wine waiter because of the war and George would smile ashamedly when I asked about wines like fresa. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The crop had failed, the bad corn, and want of foreign wines, added vigour to disease. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Would it be a reasonable law to prohibit the importation of all foreign wines, merely to encourage the making of claret and Burgundy in Scotland? Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The Japanese are a wonderful little people fond of dancing and light wines. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Higher duties are imposed upon the wines of France than upon those of Portugal, or indeed of any other country. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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