sherry-cobbler

• “I do not know how their cool rejections may taste within the hammocks, but, having experience, I can report that, out of them, the mounds of ices and the bowls of mint-julep and sherry-cobbler they make in these latitudes, are refreshments never to be thought of afterwards, in summer, by those who would preserve contented minds.”

  American Notes for General Circulation

• “Every one chattered, argued, discussed, disputed, applauded, from the gentleman lounging upon the barroom settee with his tumbler of sherry-cobbler before him down to the waterman who got drunk upon his “knock-me-down” in the dingy taverns of Fell”

  From the Earth to the Moon

• “Cocktail, stone-fence and sherry-cobbler were mentioned by Irving in 1809; 29 by Thackeray’s time they were already well-known in England.”

  Chapter 3. The Period of Growth. 3. The Expanding Vocabulary

• “We left him to the tender mercies of gout and asthma, and the enjoyment of a sherry-cobbler through a straw, looking rather too fat for his snuff-coloured trousers with a cord outside, and his flowered silk waistcoat; but very much too fat for the straw, the slenderness of which was almost painful by contrast.”

  Somehow Good

• “Well?" asked the Seraph, pausing to listen till he let the ice in his sherry-cobbler melt away.”

  Under Two Flags

• “The discriminating visitor will decidedly prefer to receive his sandwich and glass of bitter at the hands of a pretty barmaid rather than from an oleaginous pot-man in his shirt-sleeves; and the sherry-cobbler acquires a racier flavour from the arch looks of the Hebe who dispenses it.”

  Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis

• “As for the "belle and beauty," she, on a day, married Mr. Gilbert, in pearl-colored satin, and that gentleman chancing to overturn a sherry-cobbler on the fair bride's robe, the delicate creature went into”

  Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems

• “We can mix a sherry-cobbler too, that ain't hard to take.”

  The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West

• “I do not know how their cool refections may taste within the hammocks, but, having experience, I can report that, out of them, the mounds of ices and the bowls of mint-julep and sherry-cobbler they make in these latitudes, are refreshments never to be thought of afterwards, in summer, by those who would preserve contented minds.”

  American Notes

• “I recognized him at once, for ten minutes before I had been sucking a sherry-cobbler with him out of the same rummer.”

  The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings

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