chianti

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My friend is dining privately upstairs We lingered a while over our chianti, then quietly paid the check and departed True to his word, Luigi was waiting for us in the dark hall.

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  • He ordered a glass of chianti, perched on a stool, and listened to a woman recite a sonnet, coincidentally called Bottom Feeder attacking the absurdity of her devotion to her lover's penis, gluttonous as an eel. —  F ;SF - vol 105 issue 02 - August 2003
  • Õlu (beer) -- I know there are a lot of people who look down on beer drinkers as lower-class alcohol-consuming heathen and would prefer to toast the longest day of the year with vodka or maybe even a nice chianti. —  Itching for Eestimaa
  • I'm in there an hour or so, having a swell time at this place near the Duomo, taking my notes, drinking the chianti, laughing about that corny straw basket the bottle comes in.
  • The Italians call it a fiasco -- the basket, I mean -- and soon I'm making the obvious joke that if I drink any more of this chianti, I'll become a fiasco myself, which suddenly seems screamingly funny to me in the way things can seem funny during a night of chianti and then tragic the next day.
  • It's not like we're going to crack open your skull, grab some fava beans and pour a glass of chianti. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
 

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