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Despite the dirtiness of the hut, soiled by the sportsmen's boots, the dirty dogs that were licking themselves there, and despite the smell of bog and of powder and the absence of knives and forks, the sportsmen drank tea and ate supper with a relish known only when one is out shooting.
I expect he drank them.
They drank a glass of vodka each and returned to their table.
He was hungry, and ate and drank with great pleasure, and with still greater pleasure took part in the simple merry talk of his companions.
He drank a glass of champagne they offered him, and ordered another bottle.
Early in the morning he rode to where the first rye was being sown, then to see the oats carted and stacked, and returning home when his wife and sister-in-law were getting up he drank coffee with them, and then walked to the farm where the new threshing machine was to be started to thresh the seed corn.
Then his father, Nicolas Maheu, called Le Rouge, when hardly forty years of age had died in the pit, which was being excavated at that time: a land-slip, a complete slide, and the rock drank his blood and swallowed his bones.
He drank from the tin and gave it back for her to empty.
On the flags a thin layer of white sand drank up the constant moisture of this water-soaked land.
It is all the nicer of him, since before our marriage he drank like a hog, begging your pardon.
Now, like his mates, he got up at three o'clock, drank his coffee, and carried off the double slice of bread and butter which Madame Rasseneur had prepared for him the evening before.
He drank his beer in small sips, while the engine-man smoked constant cigarettes, of which the tobacco had at last stained his slender fingers.
And the mother remained alone, in the midst of her scattered children, without strength to leave her chair, where she was pouring out a second glass of boiling coffee, which she drank in little sips.
They naturally drank theirs also.
And there were long silences; the crowd drank and stuffed itself without a sound; a mute indigestion of beer and fried potatoes was expanding in the great heat, still further increased by the frying-pans bubbling in the open air.
Maheude, notwithstanding the caution of a prudent housekeeper, treated him with consideration, as a young man who paid regularly and neither drank nor gambled, with his nose always in a book; she spread abroad his reputation among the neighbours as an educated lad, a reputation which they abused by asking him to write their letters.
Then, as he drank his cold coffee, they tried to speak of other things.
He drank a gulp of the gin.
Before setting out he refused his share of a loaf that had been given him the evening before, together with a bottle of gin; but he drank three little glasses, one after the other, saying that he wanted to keep out the cold; he even carried away a tinful.
She drank, but with so trembling a hand that the two glasses struck together with a tinkling sound.
He alone paid the expenses of the strike; he understood that they were drinking to his disaster when they drank to M. Hennebeau's rosette.
The mine drank down this river; the galleries would now be submerged for years.
They merely bent down and drank from the hollow of the hand, and that very frequently, parched by a thirst which all this water could not quench.
She drank, but as she was drawing up a second mouthful the body came back, striking her hand.
All that day they never drank, struggling, preferring to die.
It was not until the next day that their suffering decided them: they pushed away the body at each mouthful and drank in spite of it.
He spotted a coconut palm, beat down some of its fruit, broke them open, and we drank their milk and ate their meat with a pleasure that was a protest against our standard fare on the Nautilus.
"I've even heard stories," the Canadian said, "about some lady in ancient times who drank pearls in vinegar."
But, as he knew no more about farming than calico, as he rode his horses instead of sending them to plough, drank his cider in bottle instead of selling it in cask, ate the finest poultry in his farmyard, and greased his hunting-boots with the fat of his pigs, he was not long in finding out that he would do better to give up all speculation.
She ordered dishes for herself, then she did not touch them; one day drank only pure milk, the next cups of tea by the dozen.
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