Quotes About Rum

big dixie which contained a mixture of rum and lime and water, well calculated to dispel the ugliness of the day and turn the night into something soft and sympathetic.

he was very intemperate, and could not write until he had quickened his thoughts with large draughts of rum and water; that he was, in short, a bad character, and not fit to be placed in such a situation.

rum-drinking pirates, strong-willed women, courtly manners, eccentric behavior, gentle words, and lovely music.

In Treasure Island , Savannah is the place where Captain John Flint, the murderous pirate with the blue face, has died of rum before the story begins. It is on his death bed in Savannah that Flint bellows his last command - Fetch aft the rum, Darby! - and hands Billy Bones a map of Treasure Island. He gave it me at Savnnah, says Bones, when he lay a-dying. The book has a drawing of Flint's map in it with an X marking the location of the buried treasure.

These, then, were the images in my mental gazetteer of Savannah: rum-drinking pirates, strong-willed women, courtly manners, eccentric behavior, gentle words, and lovely music. That and the beauty of the name itself: Savannah.

Too many in your state [Pennsylvania], as in this [New York], love pure democracy dearly. They seem not to consider that pure democracy, like pure rum, easily produces intoxication, and with it a thousand mad pranks and fooleries.

She reached the door and added, 'Myfanwy says you drink too much rum. I think she was right.' 'It's my aftershave.' 'Well, then, you drink too much aftershave.

They are me, these women. They are the ones who taught me to see; I taught me to see. They, we, are the ones healing the Ginen story, fighting to destroy that cancerous trade in shiploads of African bodies that ever demands to be fed more sugar, more rum, more Nubian gold.

Oglethorpe left the colony in 1743, never to return. Three years earlier, a soldier had attempted to murder him, the musket ball tearing through his wig. He survived, but his dream for Georgia died. Over the next decade, land tenure policies were lifted, rum was allowed to flow freely, and slaves were sold surreptitiously. In 1750, settlers were formally granted the right to own slaves.

The lustre, like the sheen of rum honey or parsnips cooked in butter made her want to put it in her mouth, she put it down reluctantly.

What's tequila, blackberry brandy, and rum?" "Culo de fuego. A flaming asshole.

Pe atunci, ziceam c? Parisul e minunea minunilor, ?i a?a ?i era. La urma urmei, noi l-am inventat. Noi l-am creat, cu dorurile noastre, cu ?ig?rile ?i romul St. James; l-am pl?smuit din fum ?i conversa?ii de?tepte, crude, ?i vai de cei care ar fi spus c? nu e al nostru. Împreun? am f?cut tot, apoi l-am desf?cut iar în buc??i.

I went into the house. I put on Jimi Hendrix's 'Red House' at full volume, filled the glass to the brim with rum, without ice, and went back to the terrace. To gaze at the night and the dark sea and the night.