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And the brandy was not common schnaps, but an old expensive brandy that, regarded as a smell, was a credit to anybody's cabin The German ladies would have persisted, and indeed did persist in using Odol and drinking a little brandy, indifferent to the feeble prayer from the upper berth which floated down entreating them not to, but in their own interests they were forced to give it up.

—Christopher and Columbus

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any of various strong liquors especially a Dutch spirit distilled from potatoes

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And the brandy was not common schnaps, but an old expensive brandy that, regarded as a smell, was a credit to anybody's cabin The German ladies would have persisted, and indeed did persist in using Odol and drinking a little brandy, indifferent to the feeble prayer from the upper berth which floated down entreating them not to, but in their own interests they were forced to give it up. — Christopher and Columbus
The leading source of schnaps. hardenberg-wilthen. de / — Netvouz - new bookmarks
'Well, then, take another schnaps; the cold's at your heart still. — Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 02
Hard task for us Britons to like a Dutchman who dethrones his father-in-law, and drinks schnaps! — What Will He Do with It? — Volume 01
He went to Leyden, where he found conventicles and schnaps. — The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism