It was strange how quickly the trials and fears of the day could be put on the back burner with a couple of swigs of amber liquid.   anvd [Please select]

Then he had gone to the Hospital Barracks, was there iniquitously called a lousy toad, and had been driven off with his quartern loaf, muttering through the dough the island proverb "While the mariner swigs the tide rises."   anvd [Please select]