Your cup full, youquaffthe cool refreshing draught and give thanks.
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Why does nobody everquaffthe bowl if it is so often at our lips?
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I felt as guilty as any first world war general, quaffing claret in comfort behind the lines while sending other officers to face the flak at the front.
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Artists used to come and paint it, and there are one or two good inns on the banks where one couldquaffone's ale in the summer.
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Water was too dangerous to drink for fear of bacterial and so ale and wine was quaffed in quantity.
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The acts of pausing and focusing through each step distinguishes wine tasting from simple quaffing.
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At the end, all five of them quaffed from the steel bowl the remaining elixir binding themselves in new fraternal ties.
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You placed your nib with its tens of thousands of nostrils on the cliffs of my water sources and you quaffed them from their depths and you drained them.
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They spread the rumor among the enemy that these men wage war obstinately, drink human blood andquafftheir own gore if they can not reach the foe.
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