spruce-beer

• “In two minutes, however, he relented in his own favour; and muttering something about spruce-beer, walked off.”

  Emma

• “But one morning -- I forget exactly the day -- but perhaps it was the Tuesday or Wednesday before that evening, he wanted to make a memorandum in his pocket-book; it was about spruce-beer.”

  Emma

• “Mr. Knightley had been telling him something about brewing spruce-beer, and he wanted to put it down; but when he took out his pencil, there was so little lead that he soon cut it all away, and it would not do, so you lent him another, and this was left upon the table as good for nothing.”

  Emma

• “The substance from which spruce-beer is made, is an extract of the branches of the _Abies Canadensis_, or Hemlock”

  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 529, January 14, 1832

• “The young shoots are much in demand for making spruce-beer.”

  Among the Trees at Elmridge

• “The spruce-beer customers were pretty steady in hot weather, and there were many demands for different soothing syrups and elixirs with which the unwise curiosity of my early residence had made me acquainted.”

  Mrs. Todd

• “The spruce-beer bottle was not yet in the well, and with that and my luncheon, and Pleasure at the helm, I went out into the happy world.”

  A Dunnet Shepherdess

• “The young shoots of this tree are very valuable, yielding a favourite beverage known in North America as “spruce-beer.””

  The Fur Country

• “The spruce-beer made from a decoction of young fir-branchlets burst the barrels in which it was kept as it froze, whilst all solid bodies resisted the introduction of heat as if they were petrified.”

  The Fur Country

• “Oh, Electra, jewel of women, darling of my heart, we are free at last, we roll in wealth, we need never scrimp again. it's a case for Veuve Cliquot!" and he got out a pint of spruce-beer and made sacrifice, he saying "Damn the expense," and she rebuking him gently with reproachful but humid and happy eyes.”

  The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories

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