whuskey

I don't know what the name of the piece was but it dealt with a Hospital Commission, and the _dramatis personæ_ consisted of a Boer spy, posing as the Commissioner, the real Commissioner, as a new nurse, nurses, orderlies, Kaffirs and doctors, amongst the latter being a Scotch Doctor, who drank a deal of "whuskey" and whose diagnoses were most entertaining.

A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition P. T. Ross

Referring to this story -- first cousin surely to Lover's joke in "Handy Andy" of the Irish witness who, when pressed as to his mother's religion, promptly replied, "She tuk whuskey in her tay!"

The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

I'm a courtin '' er when, "etc., etc. And then a fresh-faced lad chirps up:" T '' ell wif yer Lonnon an 'yer whuskey.

A Yankee in the Trenches Robert Derby Holmes

_ "She'll wush that Loch Lefen wass whuskey," says Hecky MacCrimmon frae Skye.

Ballads of a Bohemian 1916

Who was ever ready to warm you at his bit fire in winter or to cool ye're whuskey-hot throat with water from his cool spring in summer?

Down the Mother Lode Vivia Hemphill 1911

Weel, they are a gay, ignorant, proud, drunken pack; they manage to pay ilka year for whuskey one million three hundred and forty-eight thousand pounds.

Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1 Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853

When I got into the train at Glesga Central I had twa bottles o 'whuskey in my bag, and ... a' the other men in my compartment was teetotal. "

A Dominie in Doubt Alexander Sutherland Neill 1928

"'Whist, Pat,' says he, 'ye don't want whuskey; 'twill make ye dhrunk.

The Blind Spot Austin Hall 1908

“Nae, nae,” she replied, “he used to come in and sit doun wi 'his hands in his lap like a bashful country lad; very glum, till he got a drap o' whuskey, or heard a gude story, and then he was aff!

Recollections of a Long Life Cuyler, Theodore L 1902