sherry-cobbler

I do not know how their cool rejections may taste within the hammocks, but, having experience, I can report that, out of them, the mounds of ices and the bowls of mint-julep and sherry-cobbler they make in these latitudes, are refreshments never to be thought of afterwards, in summer, by those who would preserve contented minds.

American Notes for General Circulation 2007

Every one chattered, argued, discussed, disputed, applauded, from the gentleman lounging upon the barroom settee with his tumbler of sherry-cobbler before him down to the waterman who got drunk upon his “knock-me-down” in the dingy taverns of Fell

From the Earth to the Moon 2003

Cocktail, stone-fence and sherry-cobbler were mentioned by Irving in 1809; 29 by Thackeray’s time they were already well-known in England.

Chapter 3. The Period of Growth. 3. The Expanding Vocabulary Henry Louis 1921

We left him to the tender mercies of gout and asthma, and the enjoyment of a sherry-cobbler through a straw, looking rather too fat for his snuff-coloured trousers with a cord outside, and his flowered silk waistcoat; but very much too fat for the straw, the slenderness of which was almost painful by contrast.

Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878

"Well?" asked the Seraph, pausing to listen till he let the ice in his sherry-cobbler melt away.

Under Two Flags 1839-1908 Ouida 1873

The discriminating visitor will decidedly prefer to receive his sandwich and glass of bitter at the hands of a pretty barmaid rather than from an oleaginous pot-man in his shirt-sleeves; and the sherry-cobbler acquires a racier flavour from the arch looks of the Hebe who dispenses it.

Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis Charles Maurice Davies 1869

As for the "belle and beauty," she, on a day, married Mr. Gilbert, in pearl-colored satin, and that gentleman chancing to overturn a sherry-cobbler on the fair bride's robe, the delicate creature went into

Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems Effie Afton 1858

"We can mix a sherry-cobbler too, that ain't hard to take."

The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Mayne Reid 1850

I do not know how their cool refections may taste within the hammocks, but, having experience, I can report that, out of them, the mounds of ices and the bowls of mint-julep and sherry-cobbler they make in these latitudes, are refreshments never to be thought of afterwards, in summer, by those who would preserve contented minds.

American Notes 1842

I do not know how their cool rejections may taste within the hammocks, but, having experience, I can report that, out of them, the mounds of ices and the bowls of mint-julep and sherry-cobbler they make in these latitudes, are refreshments never to be thought of afterwards, in summer, by those who would preserve contented minds.

American Notes Charles Dickens 1841