Rakia definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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Hour after hour of peace they spent, disdaining to do any work more arduous than smoking cigarettes and drinking rakia, and talking, talking ... they would relate to one another what their ancestors had done by way of cutting Turkish noses, and unweariedly they would announce how their own blood was undiluted and heroic.

—The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1

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So I am reduced to drinking rakia and typing energetically to prevent hypothermia from setting in. — Liberal Bureaucracy
Hour after hour of peace they spent, disdaining to do any work more arduous than smoking cigarettes and drinking rakia, and talking, talking ... they would relate to one another what their ancestors had done by way of cutting Turkish noses, and unweariedly they would announce how their own blood was undiluted and heroic. — The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1
We off-saddled for a moment, and were welcomed by the inhabitants, who gave us Turkish coffee and plum brandy (rakia), while in exchange we made them cigarettes of English tobacco. — The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia
The hostess brought us rakia, coffee and walnuts, and did her utmost to make us comfortable. — The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia
The archbishop went to his room to remonstrate No, no," said he; "I spent two nights under a ceiling which rained bugs upon me, and I know a good bed when I've got it Coffee and cigarettes came in, of the best, and the rakia was a thing apart from the acrid stuff we were accustomed to He admitted its superiority. — The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia