How To Use Madeira In A Sentence
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Christmas and New Year have long been the high point for visitor and Madeiran alike.
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White-suited drivers, wearing straw hats and Madeiran boots, run alongside, pushing the toboggan to gain momentum.
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In addition to supporting Columba trocaz, several forest areas are also very important for a number of Madeiran subspecies, notably the birds of prey and passerines living within the forest canopy such Madeira chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs maderensis) and Madeira firecrest (Regulus ignicapillus maderensis).
Madeira evergreen forests
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The meetings were not entirely musical, or so one gathers from the early minute-books, where it is stated that at each meeting one bottle of sherry was to be provided for every three members, and one bottle of madeira for every seven members, and further that politics or religion were not to be talked during meetings.
Music and Musicians
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Malmsey is really an after-dinner drink - apparently Verdelho Madeira medium-dry is really the one to drink with cake - but I am sure that on this occasion it will do nicely.
Archive 2005-10-01
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He might have kicked off life from humble beginnings on the tiny sunshine isle of Madeira off the coast of Africa.
The Sun
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Whisky is always kept in oak casks that have already stored another alcoholic beverage: usually bourbon or sherry, occasionally port and Madeira.
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My aunt had the breast of corn-fed chicken with pea risotto and Madeira syrup.
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The Purus-Madeira moist forest ecoregion lies in the center of the Brazilian Amazon, south of the Amazon River on the interfluve between the Purus and Madeira Rivers.
Purus-Madeira moist forests
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Madeira is the largest of the islands, measuring about 57 km wide and 22 km long.
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And for what Mary Margaret called the afters, desserts, she had made custard to pour over a Madeira cake, a kind of pound cake.
Lightning Strikes
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Once in Brazil he took passage on the old Madeira-Mamoré railway, a steam locomotive that ran two hundred miles through the forest to Porto Velho, then a small Brazilian trading center on the upper Madeira River.
One River
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Another evening, I watch as a waiter flambés my seafood in Madeira wine with delicious results.
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He could easily have cited the Aldabran tortoise, the chuckwalla of Angel de la Guarda, the hippo of Madagascar, the beetles of Madeira, the elephantids of Timor, the iguanas of the Galápagos, the finches of Darwin and Lack, the earwig of Saint Helena, and the dodo.
The Song of The Dodo
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Also, given that vintage Madeira is not cheap, the solera wines are priced so that a nineteenth century solera wine is much less expensive that a true vintage Madeira of the ‘base’ year.
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Há passadiços de madeira semelhantes às pontes pênseis do Afeganistão, mas estão húmidos, as cordas estão humidas e cobertas de fungos verdes.
A inclemência da distância.
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No doubt Dr. Hooker collected the Kerguelen moth, for I remember he told me of the case when I suggested in the "Origin," the explanation of the coleoptera of Madeira being apterous; but he did not know what had become of the specimens.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
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During the meal, however, he drank 12 bottles of wine followed by a Tokay, a Paphos, a Madeira, and a Falernian with the fruit.
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Madeira's hotels are outstanding, many of them converted quintas.
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Port and madeira are fortified wines.
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Madeira's is a mountainous interior, mysteriously wreathed by a cover of clouds.
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That night they dine nobly again, with an excellent Madeira.
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With the exception of D. corleyi, which is endemic to the coast of northern Spain, all are Macaronesian relicts with a highly fragmented distribution in the Azores, Madeira and Canary Islands, and on the southern European coast.
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As the two bay mares dueled in the lane, Finery angled to the outside following a ground-saving trip midpack and kicked home in the final strides to edge Madeira Mist.
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But for the curious wine enthusiast, Madeira offers a unique taste sensation.
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All madeiras are blended and the blender is an artist, giving the blend its distinctive characteristics.
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Coarse-textured stuffing is essential to what I regard as one of the glories of Christmas. onions 2 butter a thick slice thyme a large sprig or two rosemary 1 large sprig sausage meat 400g fresh breadcrumbs 3 handfuls cooked peeled chestnuts (boiled or roasted) 50g, roughly chopped Madeira or dry marsala a wine glass Peel and cut up the onions just short of finely chopped.
Tender delights
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Members assimilated in hearty courtesy of a Falstaffian Bard's birthday take a break of final Apr hosted by Messrs. Friedman, Madeira, as good as Pope.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
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Shakespeare's Falstaff admitted that he sold his soul for Madeira wine, and so fond of it was the Duke of Clarence that, faced with execution, he chose to be drowned instead in a vat of Malmsey - the sweetest of all Mardeiras.
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Clearly a dry wine such as a Fino Sherry or Sercial Madeira is most appropriate at the start of the meal, not the end.
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A roast sweetbread was sauced with a Madeira and truffle mix of improbable delicacy.
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Instant marinades, using brandy or Madeira, are used for the ingredients of pâtés and terrines.
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A roast sweetbread was sauced with a Madeira and truffle mix of improbable delicacy.
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He always has an elevenses of seed cake and Madeira, and his favourite restaurant is Sweetings in the City.
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The two young men ordered a broiled bone, Madeira negus, and a pack of cards, and commenced a game at picquet.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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Because the island was the final landfall before passage to America, ships would load up on Madeira's wines, both as a product to sell and to use as ballast.
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For my main course, I had the fillet of Aberdeen beef, with braised shin and green vegetables, served on a bed of creamed celeriac and Madeira sauce.
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Japonica, _ in Madeira called the loquat and elsewhere the Japanese medlar: it grows wild in the Brazil, where the people distil from it.
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
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Madeira, belonging to Mr. John Hancock, an eminent merchant of Boston, the tidesman, Thomas Kirk, went on board, and was followed by Captain
The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816
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In Madeira she had been learning Portuguese and had also met a few Brazilians who had been holidaying there.
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On the Lower Madeira are the houseless, formidable Aráras, who paint their chins red with achote (anatto), and usually have a black tattooed streak on each side of the face.
The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America
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‘I would like to return to Madeira to teach adults English as a private tutor,’ she said.
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Kendal, whither I had sent all my clothes and viatica; from thence to go to London, and to see whether or no I could arrange my pecuniary matters, so as leaving Mrs. Coleridge all that was necessary to her comforts, to go myself to Madeira, having a persuasion, strong as the life within me, that one winter spent in a really warm, genial climate, would completely restore me.
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
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What about dumping the crazy-young-doing-crazy-stuff style adverts that dominate on TV today and turning instead to the creation of simple plugs for brands of dry sherry and short breaks to Madeira?
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Teyde, gradually upreared his giant statue, two and a half miles high: travellers speak of seeing him from Madeira, a distance of some 260
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
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Members assimilated in hearty courtesy of a Falstaffian Bard's birthday take a break of final Apr hosted by Messrs. Friedman, Madeira, as good as Pope.
Archive 2009-11-01
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All madeiras are blended and the blender is an artist, giving the blend its distinctive characteristics.
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There's a slim chance of picking up Madeiran petrel on my forthcoming Canaries trip, and I now know of a site in Morocco where the hemipodes are said to be still present and calling.
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Madeira is fortified wine, just like the other wines in our report.
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They were lost at sea when their ship sank en route for Madeira.
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The description of the voyage is followed by what the writer calls a cosmography, in which is shown the distance they had sailed from the time they left the desert rocks at Madeira, and the probable size of the new world as compared with the old, with the relative area of land and water on the whole globe.
The Voyage of Verrazzano A Chapter in the Early History of Maritime Discovery in America
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There is a strong echo of elegance, but the tertiary flavours of nut and oxidised or Madeira-like notes are now coming to the foreground.
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White-suited drivers, wearing straw hats and Madeiran boots, run alongside, pushing the toboggan to gain momentum.
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Madeira did not seem to be unconscious, but his senses were obtunded, and it was some minutes before he could sit up.
Sally of Missouri
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But for the curious wine enthusiast, Madeira offers a unique taste sensation.
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Madeira used to be a happy hunting ground for antique collectors.
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Instant marinades, using brandy or Madeira, are used for the ingredients of pâtés and terrines.
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Thomson's continuing work on laying submarine telegraph cables took him to Madeira in 1873.
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Madeira is made in several layers of sweetness, from sercial (the driest) to verdelho, bual and malmsey.
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Now this view of the case enables us at once to explain some of the most striking gaps in the Madeiran coleopterous fauna.
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The third is the hygienic sciolist, who drinks on principle poor “Gladstone” and thin French wines, cheap and nasty; and the survivor is the man who enjoys a quantum suff. of humming Scotch and Burton ales, sherry, Madeira, and port, with a modicum of cognac.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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It pretty nearly pulled all the legs off me, and to this hour I cannot tell you if it is best to put your foot into a footmark — a young pond, I mean — about the size of the bottom of a Madeira work arm-chair, or whether you should poise yourself on the rim of the same, and stride forward to its other bank boldly and hopefully.
Travels in West Africa
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It will include road-building projects, canalising the Araguaia, das Mortes, Xingu, Madeira and Tocantins rivers, hydroelectric projects, mining, and expansion of agribusiness.
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Every window of the hotel looks inward to a crosshatch of courtyards and fountains, banyans and Madeira palms.
The Lady Matador’s Hotel
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Madeira has a host of water sports options including surfing and water skiing.
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Madeira may have a sedate image but it does have dramatic scenery and spectacular blooms.
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That would be Madeira, sweet white wines fortified with brandy and named for an island off the coast of North Africa where they are crafted.
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Frosted store windows groaned with a cornucopia of Irish linens, Madras shawls, China tea, Moroccan slippers, Scottish whisky and Madeira wine.
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The house burned because the cook tumped over a pan of hot lard, which exploded; or a vengeful ex-slave lit a piece of fat wood under the house and fed the fire with the last bottle of old Madeira that George Washington Gilbert, a drinking Methodist, had brought from Carolina; or Sister Mary, who was always cold-natured, stood too close to the parlor hearth at her wedding and set her veil on fire.
Dream State
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Now, it's almost routine to find single malts matured in used casks which once held cognac, fino sherry, Madeira, Malaga, Bordeaux and other wines and spirits.
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I had the rump of veal with garlic and almond crumb, truffle mash, crispy sweetbread and a Madeira sauce.
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I heard about it from Colin the Corgi, who was showing this hand around over the preprandial Madeira at the Griffins bar:
VICTOR MOLLO’S BRIDGE CLUB
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We find similar relations between the existing inhabitants of distinct countries; for instance, the land-shells and coleopterous insects of Madeira have come to differ considerably from their nearest allies on the continent of Europe, whereas the marine shells and birds have remained unaltered.
XI. On the Geological Succession of Organic Beings. On the Slow and Successive Appearance of New Species
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My trip, which included Madeira and a whistle-stop tour of the Canary Islands, was filled with a controlled whirl of almost non-stop activities and fun.
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Uncooked madeira cake mixture can be frozen in an airtight container.
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Though the British enjoyed sipping their rich Madeira after dinner, the fortified wine was transformed into a thirst quencher when mixed with cold water, sugar, nutmeg, and other exotic spices, known as a sangaree.
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Finished with a Madeira jus, it makes an absolutely stunning dish and is a firm favourite with our diners.
Times, Sunday Times
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Somewhere back in the mists of time, a volcano erupted and the archipelago of Madeira was formed.
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Madeira lies right in the track of the trade winds, and down the centuries the island has played host to voyagers passing between the Old and New Worlds.
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Southcombe, marching slowly with his long limp burdens, found ready on the sand the little barrel, about as big as a kilderkin, of true and unsullied Stockholm pitch, which he had taken, as his brother took Madeira, for ripeness and for betterance, by right of change of climate.
Springhaven
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Our usual interjection again to a sedulous hosts, Messrs. Friedman, Madeira as good as Pope.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
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Due to adverse weather conditions the ship may take shelter in ports in Spain, Portugal or Madeira on her journey to Tenerife, according to a spokesperson for the company.
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We see the same fact in geographical distribution; for instance, in the land-shells and coleopterous insects of Madeira having come to differ considerably from their nearest allies on the continent of Europe, whereas the marine shells and birds have remained unaltered.
On the Origin of Species~ Chapter 10 (historical)
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When the island of Madeira is first approached from the sea, it has a very beautiful appearance; the sides of the hills being entirely covered with vines almost as high as the eye can distinguish; and the vines are green when every kind of herbage, except where they shade the ground, and here and there by the sides of a rill, is entirely burnt up, which was the case at this time.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 12 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
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Sheridan for dinner, Colman for supper; Sheridan for claret or port, but Colman for every thing, from the madeira and champagne at dinner, the claret with a _layer_ of _port_ between the glasses, up to the punch of the night, and down to the grog, or gin and water, of daybreak; -- all these I have threaded with both the same.
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
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It has a sweetish taste, but a disagreeable smell, and is generally given in the form of a decoction, which is made by boiling an ounce of the dried bark in a quart of water until it assumes the color of Madeira wine.
Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture
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Those who speak it live on indigenous lands like Diahui, Middle Madeira river, Southern Amazonas State, Municipality of Humaita. As of 2006, one speaker was left.
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Suppose, that after a smacking run of about eight days before a fresh gale, (during the whole of which you are of course too sick and qualmy to leave your cot,) you awake one morning, and find yourself snugly at anchor in the bay of Funchal; and the romantic, sun-bright mountains of Madeira, gorgeously crested with a mass of brilliant clouds, looking in at your cabin-window.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 274, September 22, 1827
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Madeira it passed to the Canary Islands, where it was entirely unknown; for the ferulae of Juba, quae expressae liquorem fundunt potui ucundum, are euphorbias (the Tabayba dulce), and not, as has been recently asserted, * sugar-canes.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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Regardless, the next morning. brought Madeira into sight-and fresh barrels of wine into the hold.
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Not that these nuns are not good cooks and bakers: witness the delicate sweetmeats, biscuits and pastry they offer to strangers on such festival days as the one just described, the fruit-preserves in blocks sold for their sustenance by the nuns at Funchal, Madeira, and the fairy frostwork of sugar seen on great occasions in French convents.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876
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The main island Madeira is about 59 km in length and breadthways about 26 km.
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The main island Madeira is about 59 km in length and breadthways about 26 km.
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The Madeira-Tapajós interfluve has a high primate diversity.
Madeira-Tapajós moist forests
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In the early years of this century, many a collector found Madeira a happy hunting ground.
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The family of sweet fortified wines include Port, Madeira, Malmsey, Vermouth and Muscat de Beaumes de Venise.
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The Bolivian portion of this ecoregion is delineated following Ribera et al., and follows the Rio Madeira boundary south until it abuts with the Beni biomes and later the Chiquitano dry forests, whose distinct vegetation justifies this separation.
Madeira-Tapajós moist forests
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Four types of Madeiras, each named for a varietal grape, predominate.
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Famous for the fortified wine vinted on its shores, the island of Madeira is as charming now as it was in the days when well-heeled Brits made it their favourite winter roost
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This ecoregion is bound on three sides by large rivers, the Solimões (Amazon) to the north, Madeira to the west, and Tapajós to the east, which act as formidable barrier to the distributions of many species.
Madeira-Tapajós moist forests
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Madeira has an ideal climate, and so it is not surprising that it has become a tourist paradise.
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A rare marsh dowd, which is normally found in Madeira, has been identified on the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust's Martin Mere reserve in Lancashire.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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Also recently available from Madeira Threads is a fine, pure 100% cotton for crochet, lace and other croft work.
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Roasted red leg partridge with a game torte, parsnip galette and truffle Madeira jus.
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The gold fob watch is molded of a kind of gelatinized bouillon composed of beef and mushroom stocks reduced into a syrup, leaf gelatine and 10-year-old Madeira hand-wrapped with edible gold leaf.
Mock Turtle Soup at The Fat Duck | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
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His mirepoix is listed among ‘essences’ and, indeed, is a meaty concoction (laced with two bottles of Madeira!) which, like all other essences, was used to enrich many a classic sauce.
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Madeira has an ideal climate, and so it is not surprising that it has become a tourist paradise.
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The Jesuits came to Madeira in 1569 and started to construct a church, monastery and college.
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A side table is laden with the finest sweetmeats the Glasgow South Co - operative Society can offer - Madeira cake, sultana cake, cherry cake, and butter shortbread.
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Madeira is the only wine in the world where heat is deliberately applied to age the wine artificially.
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Like Sherry or Madeira, vermouth is a beverage that originated as a type of wine and ended up as a fortified wine cross breed.
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White-suited drivers, wearing straw hats and Madeiran boots, run alongside, pushing the toboggan to gain momentum.
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Perhaps he saved time because he spoke no English and did not linger loquaciously over the Madeira or the tea.
Washington
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Emigration Emigration and tourism have long been the main contributors to the economy of Madeira, emigration being the older.
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Line the base of an ovenproof dish with slices of Madeira cake.
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Whisky is always kept in oak casks that have already stored another alcoholic beverage: usually bourbon or sherry, occasionally port and Madeira.
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The Madeirans were worried, in particular, in case a post-revolutionary Communist dictatorship should install itself in Lisbon.
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Uncooked madeira cake mixture can be frozen in an airtight container.
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Dissolve the arrowroot in 2 tablespoons of the reserved Madeira to form a slurry and set aside. Add the reserved Madeira, truffles and veal stock to the foie gras fat.
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The two young men ordered a broiled bone, Madeira negus, and a pack of cards, and commenced a game at picquet.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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Forgive me but I am going to use your Madeira cake recipe, add amoretto, and serve it with a cup of white peach tea.
Madeira Cake
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The region includes the large interfluve between the Madeira and Tapajós Rivers, both major tributaries to the mighty Amazon, and extends southward into the headwaters of the Tapajós to the Rio Guaporé Basin.
Madeira-Tapajós moist forests
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A proposed hydroelectric dam on the Madeira river (a tributary of the Amazon) was denounced, and the country's new oil find claimed for its people.
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There was also roast chicken breast with confit thigh, wild mushroom, bread sauce agnolotti and a madeira jus.
Times, Sunday Times
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He could never tell Madeira from sherry, -- nay, an Oriental friend having sent him a butt of _sheeraz_, when he {p. 253} remembered the circumstance some time afterwards, and called for a bottle to have Sir John Malcolm's opinion of its quality, it turned out that his butler, mistaking the label, had already served up half the bin as _sherry_.
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10)
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The cakes consisted of an almond-topped Madeira cake and a tangy lemon version, along with strawberry pastries, miniature lemon meringues and carrot cake - all of which were sublime.
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An open bottle of vintage dated Madeira can last for months, years, maybe even decades.
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My trip, which included Madeira and a whistle-stop tour of the Canary Islands, was filled with a controlled whirl of almost non-stop activities and fun.
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Most cakes were eaten as incidental items to accompany a glass of sweet wine (the origin of the Madeira cake) or a dish of tea.
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This followed the news that the company was registering its tax domicile in Madeira.
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The revolution deterred visitors to Madeira and adversely affected the already fragile economy.
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But the demand for whiskey grew as shipments of Madeira from across the Atlantic and rum from the British West Indies grew scarce during the war.
Spirits: George's new/old rye
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Three Ryder Cup team-mates will contest the Madeira Island Open this week, all looking to kick-start their careers.
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It's a magical sort of dry-shod crossing that's less apt to occur on a whitewater river like the Madeira, which flows too fast and heavily for such general meandering.
