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He could never tell Madeira from sherry, -- nay, an Oriental friend having sent him a butt of _sheeraz_, when he remembered the circumstance some time afterwards and called for a bottle to have Sir
Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series) Richard Holt Hutton 1861
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He could never tell Madeira from sherry, -- nay, an Oriental friend having sent him a butt of _sheeraz_, when he {p. 253} remembered the circumstance some time afterwards, and called for a bottle to have Sir John Malcolm's opinion of its quality, it turned out that his butler, mistaking the label, had already served up half the bin as _sherry_.
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) 1824
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Meisam Ahmadi - idehgostar (*) sheeraz ahmed - sharypk (*)
www.ow2.org 2010
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He could never tell Madeira from sherry, ” nay, an Oriental friend having sent him a butt of sheeraz, when he remembered the circumstance some time afterwards and called for a bottle to have Sir John Malcolm's opinion of its quality, it turned out that his butler, mistaking the label, had already served up half the bin as sherry.
Sir Walter Scott Hutton, Richard 1878
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