draught

• Sieglinda drugs her husband's night-draught, and, while he is sleeping, tells Siegmund of how, when she was abducted, and compelled against her will to marry Hunding, a gray-bearded stranger came in, with his hat drawn over one eye—Wotan had but one eye—and wearing a dark-blue cloak marked with stars, suggested by the deep-blue star-pierced sky by night. —  Wagner
• Of this, he writes November 7, 1851 I have at last tasted what it is to mingle with my fellows—to take my place in that society for which nature has fitted me, and whether the draught has been a poison which has heated my veins or true nectar from the gods, life-giving, I know not, but I can no longer rest where I once could have rested. —  The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley V.1
• Czech breweries export mainly lagers but interest in Czech draught beer has lately been growing as well. —  Prague Monitor
• But they were then by no means at their full height; and even if the river be only navigable by vessels of small draught, that is a fact of very little importance as compared with the certainty that it is navigable at all to so considerable a height. —  Handbook to the new Gold-fields
• Her water-draught is about six feet more than that of the Cyclops and Hecate_, and her armour-plates three inches thicker. —  Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships

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