"Jorum" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... rummers standing on the tables, and now and then a drinking-brother would break the sugar-knobs in his liquor with a glass stirrer, or take a deep draught of the brown jorum that steamed before him. No one spoke to Mr Sharnall; only the landlord, without asking what he would take, set before him a glass filled with the same hot spirit as the other ...
— The Nebuly Coat • John Meade Falkner
... to laugh at the way he came out with that about the old one with the winkers on her, blind drunk in her royal palace every night of God, old Vic, with her jorum of mountain dew and her coachman carting her up body and bones to roll into bed and she pulling him by the whiskers and singing him old bits of songs about Ehren on the Rhine and come where the boose ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce
... jorum about, And let us be merry and clever, Our hearts and our liquors are stout, Here's the Three Jolly Pigeons forever. Let some cry of woodcock or hare, Your bustards, your ducks, and your widgeons, But of all the gay birds ...
— Oliver Goldsmith • Washington Irving
... drucken writers' feasts, Nay, been bitch-fou 'mang godly priests— Wi' rev'rence be it spoken!— I've even join'd the honour'd jorum, When mighty Squireships of the quorum, Their hydra ...
— Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns • Robert Burns
... salt pork, sweet potatoes, fruit, and, most important of all, two breakers of water and a keg of New England rum. While O'Toole gave us his experience, a ham was cut, and a slice between two of hardtack, washed down with a jorum of rum and water, with a dessert of oranges and bananas, was a feast to us more enjoyable than any ever eaten at Delmonico's or the Cafe Riche. On his arrival on shore, our ambassador had been taken to the quarters of Major Valdez, who claimed ...
— Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War • Various |
