champagne

• The hotel had contributed several bottles of nonvintage Czechoslovakian champagne, their labels discreetly hidden by white napkins. —  Death of a Gossip—Hamish Macbeth 01—by MC Beaton
• In that way everybody will get something After a while the butler again approached the admiral and said My lord, the champagne is all gone Well," said Lord Charles, "start in on cider It was a merry company, and they all caught on to the situation. —  My Memories of Eighty Years
• He had served French instead of German champagne at a banquet for Prince Henry, and he had allowed the Kaiser's yacht to be christened in French champagne. —  Theodore Roosevelt; An Intimate Biography
• The Saudis have a concoction called Saudi champagne which is actually rather glorious: a jug of whisked strawberries, pineapples, plums and apricots all jigga-jigga-jiggered in a machine with milk or yoghurt. —  Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed
• At the time of which I speak, champagne was a liqueured and sugared beverage, mainly relegated to the use and for the enjoyment of the ladies The House sat in an amazed speculation as to whither the orator was being led by this extraordinary exordium, but Mr Disraeli flowed on unmoved It happened that a friend upon the continent sent to Sir Robert Peel a case of dry champagne, a beverage then almost unknown in this country. —  Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile

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