negus

• Old Nip and the medico were on the other side of them, sipping their negus, and didn't see me That's all right; and small blame to you, Dicky," said I. —  Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman
• They are often used similarly in lemonade, negus, claret-cup and fruit juice drinks The plant has possibly a still more important though undeveloped use as a bee forage. —  Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses
• I'll send each of you a hot negus,--it's a prescription and must be taken; I'm a tyrant when professional We saw nothing more of them until dinner. —  The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm
• But when it comes to grating the nut for negus, we miss the aroma Do you pretend that Bryant is not a poet in the grain, and that the wondrous boy, Willis, was not also 'to the manner born?' —  Sea and Shore A Sequel to "Miriam's Memoirs"
• For a laudanum negus, whatever there may be about it that is pernicious, will, to a mind that is metaphysically predisposed, open up thoroughfares of thought which are raised above the level of the gross material, and which lead into the region of the shadowy. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863

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