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Much of the food was reconstituted, pouched and freeze-dried and soaked in water or wine-but there were two chickens and a turkey.

The Legacy of Heorot Niven, Larry 1987

` ` Never since my wine-but leaked, and let out its liquor by an illegal vent, '' replied the friar, ` ` and so left me nothing to drink but my patron's bounty here. ''

Ivanhoe 1892

You may want to pair those edibles with a nice bottle of wine-but make sure doing so doesn't violate company policy.

Forbes.com: News Jacquelyn Smith 2011

"Never since my wine-but leaked, and let out its liquor by an illegal vent," replied the friar, "and so left me nothing to drink but my patron's bounty here."

Ivanhoe. A Romance 1819

Sure the Parent will not touch alcohol, and the Child has no problem with a glass of wine-but each are defining what they will / will not drink by their interpretation of a god.

Planet Atheism 2009

It offers the same menu that can be found up in the Time Life or Chrysler Buildings-meaning lots of steaks, lots of wine-but for the walls, they have specially commissioned paintings of 16 prominent New Yorkers, including Solomon R. Guggenheim, Peter Stuyvesant, Charles Dow, John Jacob Astor, and John Jay.

Eater National 2009

I knew that he loved baseball, that baseball was something he carried close to his heart longer than he carried just about anything else-in fact he literally carried baseball with him in his rucksack, the hand-made cards of the Strat-O-Matic-like fantasy game he invented as a kid jammed in his traveling rucksack among his manuscripts and socks and cross-country stack of baloney sandwiches and, more and more as the year's went on, his cheap rotgut wine-but I distrusted claims made in various places that he was a Red Sox fan because in all the words I'd read by him I'd never seen one specific mention of an allegiance to the Red Sox.

Baseball Toaster 2008