Sherry's kin

Usage examples of madeira.

When she had exhausted her amorous fury she threw herself into a bath, then came back, drank a bottle of Malmsey Madeira, and finally made her brutal lover drink till he fell on to the floor.

They finished with arroz doce which turned out to be a glorified rice pudding with cinnamon, and they washed these local delicacies down with a Madeira wine carefully chosen by their host.

Madeira, where Gow presented the Governor with a box of Scotch herrings.

China oranges, walnuts and plums, candied Madeiras, citrons and muscadine grapes.

This night he found the island of Flores to the north, and to the east he made the direction to be towards Nafe in Africa, passing to leeward of the island of Madeira to the north .

Azores, but Antonio de Noli stayed at Madeira, and, catching the right breeze, he got to Portugal before me, and begged of the King the captaincy of the island of Santiago, which I had found, and the King gave it him, and he kept it till his death.

Sherry, madeira, and port were offered in beautiful but phonily new silver stirrup cups.

As for the stalls, Annie was amused to spot Frank Saulter with a Madeira cake in one hand and a clutch of potholders in the other.

It may be startling to hear of sledging in Madeira, but I must explain that the sledges had wooden runners, and that the road was paved with a black stone that was very smooth.

Vincent, during the last voyage of the vessel across the Atlantic, taken in connection with previous soundings obtained in the same region of the North Atlantic, suggests the probable existence of a submarine ridge or plateau connecting the island of Madeira with the coast of Portugal, and the probable subaerial connection in prehistoric times of that island with the south-western extremity of Europe.

Tinha levado Josias comigo e ele me ajudou a marcar cada ponto com tocos de madeira.

The different orders of insects in Madeira apparently present analogous facts.

I be wrong, Lady Bellamy, if I supposed that you have not come to Madeira solely for pleasure?

Add half a cupful of Madeira and half a cupful or more of melted butter.

Mars or the old patroon who stays at home and dips his nose into nothing worse than old Madeira!