beerage

If not, we can assume that the highly effective lobby that used to be known as the beerage is up to its old tricks.

New Statesman 2009

Whyest do we notteth goeth and partake in libations of beerage!!!

Who will save Iron Man? | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

The beerage has proved of late years also a highway to the peerage; and it has also served to deplete the pockets of a good many British fools, who were misled into the insane delusion that they could earn as much from the profits of American guzzling as from those of British beer-drinking.

Newfoundland and the Jingoes An Appeal to England's Honor John Fretwell

Vicar made little jokes about the beerage, and it was a surprising experience for Philip to discover that Watson was such an important and magnificent fellow.

Of Human Bondage 1919

At Blackstable they had always looked upon brewing with civil contempt, the Vicar made little jokes about the beerage, and it was a surprising experience for Philip to discover that Watson was such an important and magnificent fellow.

Of Human Bondage 1915

The seats shall all sell where the beerage doth flow

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I did not get on with it well at all, although the beerage may have had something to do witht it.

Blogposts | guardian.co.uk 2010

The media should distinguish between gals from the peerage and those from the beerage, plainly the latter have Guiness in their bottles from birth and are no more aristocratic than their forebears.

Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009

One suspects that trying to suppress the freedom to buy a “pint o’best” or to walk a crooked mile might prove too permanent a reminder of the power of Brussels to force us to do things we do not want to do, not least because the beerage would inevitably take the abolition of the pint as a weasel way of jacking up prices once more.

A Pint, please, Landlord! 2007

One suspects that trying to suppress the freedom to buy a “pint o’best” or to walk a crooked mile might prove too permanent a reminder of the power of Brussels to force us to do things we do not want to do, not least because the beerage would inevitably take the abolition of the pint as a weasel way of jacking up prices once more.

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