Hollands

I produced the hollands and glass from my tent, where Isopel Berners had requested me to deposit them, and also some lump sugar, then taking the gotch I fetched water from the spring, and, sitting down, begged the man in black to help himself; he was not slow in complying with my desire, and prepared for himself a glass of Hollands and water with a lump of sugar in it.

The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" George Henry Borrow 1842

` Just call Hollands, and come in here with him, 'said her ladyship.

True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best Theodore P. Wilson

A country lowing with kine; the hum of the flax-spindle heard in its cottages in those old days -- "much of the linen called Hollands is made in Jülich, and only bleached, stamped, and sold by the Dutch," says

The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859

According to Cocke and Schledwitz, the most the city could charge the Hollands was a 10 percent prosecution fee, or $38.45.

Memphis Commercial Appeal Stories 2010

Holland than elsewhere, it is best to order "Hollands," with water, as a drink for dropsical persons.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

Thus have Jules Verne's imaginings come true, and the dream _Nautilus, _ whose adventures so many of us have breathlessly followed, has been succeeded by actual "Hollands" and practical "Argonauts" designed by

Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers Russell Doubleday 1910

The Kayans were not at all given to joking like the Kanowits, but all wore an appearance of suspicion and distrust on their faces, which even the genial influence of _square face_ ( "Hollands") failed to banish, but which originated perhaps more from shyness than ill-temper.

On the Equator Harry De Windt 1894

[Some of the cargo of the SPEEDWELL is understood to have been here transferred to the larger ship; doubtless the cheese, "Hollands," and other provisions, ordered, as noted, by Cushman]

The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete Azel Ames 1876

"Hollands," rich grass lands, to only keep ewes that bear twins,

Notes and Queries, Number 72, March 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various 1852

Firstly, the verbal accent is very different - anyone speaking 'Hollands' sticks out like a sore thumb in Flanders - and secondly the vocabulary is different on commonplace items; each language has imported French words, but not the same ones!

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