egg-flip

• “She gobbled up more cakes than any six people present; then came the supper and the sandwiches again, and the egg-flip and the horrible rum-punch.”

  The Fitz-Boodle Papers

• “Our new acquaintance asked us if ever we had drunk egg-flip?”

  The Adventures of Roderick Random

• “That is all I am able to say about it, except that I am able to give the constituents of this luscious beverage, which is not to be confounded with egg-flip.”

  A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide

• “Nor could they forget the Sunday mornings when his reverence took his dose of egg-flip before church, in order to clear his voice.”

  Chapter III

• “Conversation turned on the use of stimulants as an aid to intellectual and physical effort, and Mr. Gladstone's historic egg-flip was cited.”

  Collections and Recollections

• “They're wonderful talkers, all three of 'em, and they're everlastin'ly gassin 'about one man bein' as good as another, and freedom, and the rights of man -- _you_ know, sir, the sort of slush that such chaps spouts, and that the shellback swallers as greedily as he would a pannikin of egg-flip!”

  The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn

• “He goes up, and finds the remains of the supper, tankards full of egg-flip and cardinal, and a party playing at _vingt-un_.”

  Tom Brown at Oxford

• “Staines took a good deal of egg-flip that night, and next day ate solid food; but they questioned him in vain; his reason was entirely in abeyance: he had become an eater, and nothing else.”

  A Simpleton

• “The surgeon administered half a spoonful of egg-flip.”

  A Simpleton

• “Heaven knows they are a worthy, kind-hearted, hospitable set of good fellows as ever drew a cork or made egg-flip; but I must say some of the bachelor establishments are rather in a rude and primitive state at present.”

  The Bushman — Life in a New Country

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