Etymologies
- From sack (“sherry”) + whey. (Wiktionary)
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“While Sophia, tormented with anxiety, knew not what to believer, nor what resolution to take; Susan arrived with the sack-whey.”
“Lord help me, I should have had such lectures about the dangers of love and the night air on the lake, the risk arising from colds and fortune-hunters, the comfort and convenience of sack-whey and closed windows!”
“Ay, ay, sack-whey, cries the doctor, if you will, provided it be very small.”
XIII. Containing the Great Address of the Landlady. Book VII
“Lord help me, I should have had such lectures about the dangers of love and the night air on the lake, the risk arising from colds and fortune - hunters, the comfort and convenience of sack-whey and closed windows!”
“In the meantime, he procured a plaster for his own head, and helped to apply the poultice to that of his uncle, who was sent to bed betimes with a moderate dose of sack-whey, to promote perspiration.”
“-- "Won't you allow him sack-whey?" said the landlady.”
“-- "Ay, ay, sack-whey," cries the doctor, "if you will, provided it be very small.”
“While Sophia, tormented with anxiety, knew not what to believe, nor what resolution to take, Susan arrived with the sack-whey.”
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