How To Use negus In A Sentence
- 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
- Chatterly, and reclined on his chair, sipping his negus with the self-satisfied smile of one, who, by a pretty speech, has rid himself of a troublesome commission. Saint Ronan's Well
- Silently and patiently did the doctor bear all this, and all the handings of negus, and watching for glasses, and darting for biscuits, and coquetting, that ensued; but, a few seconds after the stranger had disappeared to lead Mrs. Budger to her carriage, he darted swiftly from the room with every particle of his hitherto – bottled – up indignation effervescing, from all parts of his countenance, in a perspiration of passion. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
- Negus hopes it will be won by a novice racegoer and jokes that it will be "bloody annoying" if it goes to JP McManus or some similarly wealthy owner. Lottery launched to help save Racing Welfare charity
- It was intended for that sort of negus which is offered at Christmas parties and of which ladies and children may partake with refreshment and cheerfulness. The Kickleburys on the Rhine
- When the cloth was removed, and we had each made a tumbler of negus, of that liquor which hosts call Sherry, and guests call Lisbon, I perceived that the stranger seemed pensive, silent, and somewhat embarrassed, as if he had something to communicate which he knew not well how to introduce. The Monastery
- Abyssinia, where the "negus" or king, known by the name of Prester Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World
- The next specimen is perhaps a 'swell' out at elbows, a seedy and somewhat ragged remnant of a very questionable kind of gentility -- a gentility engendered in 'coal-holes' and 'cider-cellars,' in 'shades,' and such-like midnight 'kens' -- suckled with brandy and water and port-wine negus, and fed with deviled kidneys and toasted cheese. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 437 Volume 17, New Series, May 15, 1852
- I think people would be surprised to find how excellent a beverage the obsolete "negus" is. The Days Before Yesterday
- 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