shandy-gaff

• “Claret-cup, champagne-cup, and soda-water, brandy and shandy-gaff, are provided on a separate table for the gentlemen; Apollinaris water, and the various aerated waters so fashionable now, are also provided.”

  Manners and Social Usages

• “If the weather was hot, there was sure to be a jug of shandy-gaff or some other equally enticing compound ready to be produced just at the time when its contents would be most appreciated.”

  Frank Oldfield Lost and Found

• “The weather was very hot, and railway travelling at times oppressive, even to delegates from the sunny land of France, and shandy-gaff, a beverage new to most of the visitors, was in great request.”

  Fifty Years of Railway Life in England Scotland and Ireland

• “We got a jar of shandy-gaff, some food, and, on Ewart's suggestion, two Japanese sunshades in Staines; we demanded extra cushions at the boathouse and we spent an enormously soothing day in discourse and meditation, our boat moored in a shady place this side of Windsor.”

  Tono Bungay

• “Bruce decided that the right thing to drink was shandy-gaff, but, to keep up her Continental reputation, Madame Frabelle said she would like”

  Love at Second Sight

• “One 'ot Sunday, bein' out for a walk, 'e swiped' arf a pint of ginger beer, the next 'e tried shandy-gaff, the third' e went the whole hog, an 'then' e never stopped for ten years.”

  The Stowaway Girl

• “At the Crystal Palace, where they all had shandy-gaff, they met one of”

  Vandover and the Brute

• “Champagne cannot be so royally sound, nor is shandy-gaff so humble, that it 'scapes whipping.”

  Lost Leaders

• “But they survived the "jam;" and what with chicken pie, and beef and ham, and gooseberry pie and shandy-gaff, to say nothing of jokes and laughter, and vows of eternal friendship with every Grandcourt fellow within hail, they never (to quote the experience of the little foxes in the nursery rhyme) "they never eat a better meal in all their life.”

  Follow My leader The Boys of Templeton

• “On getting out of Moor Park there is a public-house just to the left where we generally have some shandy-gaff and buy some eggs.”

  The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

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