Bohea

And so she did too in that of the other capital, as first lady in the land, when I took tea at the Confederate White House in the closing days of the great upheaval, if "Yupon" could be called Bohea, or Okra seed

Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more, 1906

His stock of goods was purchased at Aurora and consisted of a chest of old Bohea tea, which he sold at one dollar per pound, a quantity of Cavendish tobacco, at three shillings per pound, and two or three rolls of pig-tail tobacco, at three cents per yard, cash.

Living in Dryden: If a bear steals your pig... 2004

Punctually at six we were in the little back-parlor; we quaffed more Bohea, and made more love, than half a dozen ordinary men could.

The Fatal Boots 2006

His stock of goods was purchased at Aurora and consisted of a chest of old Bohea tea, which he sold at one dollar per pound, a quantity of Cavendish tobacco, at three shillings per pound, and two or three rolls of pig-tail tobacco, at three cents per yard, cash.

Living in Dryden: July 2004 Archives 2004

I cannot say that he partook of these delicacies with any freedom himself, but he did drink his tea when it was given to him although it contained Framley cream; — and, had he known it, Bohea itself from the Framley chest.

Framley Parsonage 2004

Yesterday I gave 12 pounds Lawfull Money for one pound of Bohea tea and 14 pounds of ordinary brown sugar.

Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 2 January 1779 1973

[Abigail to John, 23 April 1781] that [I] wished you to send me a chest of Bohea tea by any vessel of Mr. Tracys or Smiths.

Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 1 August 1781 1973

The youth calls on a friend, and if "gay" is inveigled into a "wet night," and rolls back to the hotel at two in the morning _Bacchi plenus_, whereas the "steady man" regales himself with sober Bohea, talks of Newton and

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 530, January 21, 1832 Various

I could not refuse so kind an offer, and at the vulgar hour of six, behold us sipping our Bohea out of porringers, with good Jamaica stuff in it in lieu of milk.

A Sailor of King George Frederick Hoffman

It was the very circumstance of the difficulty of distinguishing between the different kinds of tea, especially between Bohea and

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds