"Gin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in a newly started mining camp. He did not confine himself to hardware and clothing and canned goods, but carried a supply of drugs, stationery and general dry goods, besides liquor in ample quantities, if of limited quality. There was rye whisky, there was gin, and there was some sort of French brandy. The two latter were in the smallest quantities. Rye was the staple ...
— The Twins of Suffering Creek • Ridgwell Cullum
... highest local offices in 1877, those of the Collector, Police Commissioners, Fire Commission, Treasurer, and the City Works Commissioners, were under the control of one Patrick Shannon, owner of two gin mills. Wearing the mask of reformers the most astute and villainous politicians piloted themselves into power. They were all elected, and it was necessary. It was necessary that New York should elect ...
— T. De Witt Talmage - As I Knew Him • T. De Witt Talmage
... he could do. He thought Heleny was handsome, I s'pose, and married her, making her keep it still because his folks in Car'lina wouldn't like it. Of course he got sick of her, and jest afore the baby was born he gin her five hundred dollars and ...
— 'Lena Rivers • Mary J. Holmes
... England; and, on the 16th of August, went on board the London Galley. But the passengers and sailors soon found that the Captain, while on shore, had neglected every thing to which he ought to have attended. The vessel was too leaky to bear the voyage; and the Captain drinking nothing scarcely but gin, had never troubled his head about taking in water; so that they were soon reduced to short allowance, which, in that sultry clime and season of the year, was a distressing predicament. Meeting, too, with violent squalls of wind, they were ...
— Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe • Thaddeus Mason Harris
... You give 'im socks," remarked a hoarse and rather indistinct voice of the gin-and-fog ...
— The Right Stuff - Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton • Ian Hay
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