How To Use Negus In A Sentence
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Abyssinia, where the "negus" or king, known by the name of Prester
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World
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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
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I think people would be surprised to find how excellent a beverage the obsolete "negus" is.
The Days Before Yesterday
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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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Our table is in the corner here, where the gentlemen can have their wineglass of negus, and their egg-sandwich, and their quiet game at beggar-my-neighbour, and look on.
A Holiday Romance
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Mr Feeder, after imbibing several custard – cups of negus, began to enjoy himself.
Dombey and Son
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To allow critical comments from listeners and Negus on the ABC this morning was a good gusty move by Catterns.
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It is said that when Ja'far came to the end of the sura that the Negus and his entire court were in tears.
