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  • Bruichladdich (pronounced "brook-laddie") is a gorgeous distillery on a far western bank of Islay, and I swear, you can taste sunsets, seagulls screaming, water bubbling over ancient rocks, the peat deep in the soil ... about fifty different thoughts, smells and tastes run through your head when you have just the tiniest tongueful.

    m��ine mh��r 2006

  • Bruichladdich (pronounced "brook-laddie") is a gorgeous distillery on a far western bank of Islay, and I swear, you can taste sunsets, seagulls screaming, water bubbling over ancient rocks, the peat deep in the soil ... about fifty different thoughts, smells and tastes run through your head when you have just the tiniest tongueful.

    yes, my gourd 2006

  • As to the five o'clock china, in which visitors give you a tepid teaspoonful, with bits of old tea-leaves in it -- I grinned at the thought as I drew in tongueful after tongueful of the thick yellow cream.

    Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

  • I don't think Doug would have said unless, of course, he had actually been talking about getting a tongueful of all that white fur.

    Literal-Minded 2008

  • I don't think Doug would have said unless, of course, he had actually been talking about getting a tongueful of all that white fur.

    Literal-Minded 2008

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