Pretend to be ill, we hear, to get a drink

Usage examples of champagne.

Eline zich op hare witte satijnen voetjes, in iets bezwijmelends van geur en licht, glijdend had laten medevoeren door een zachten dwang van haar cavaliers, en zich door slepende driekwartsmaten, als door teugen champagne had laten bedwelmen, later was zij tweemalen ten huwelijk gevraagd geworden, en had zij beide malen bedankt.

Pleasant talk and a thousand amorous kisses occupied the half hour just before supper, and our combat did not begin till we had eaten a delicious repast, washed down with plenty of champagne.

His amorous eloquence grew in strength as he irrigated his throat with champagne, Greek wine, and eastern liqueurs.

At last we got to our last glass of champagne, we rose from the table, and sentimentally but with gentle force I laid her on a couch and held her amorously in my arms.

Nevertheless, Champagne, or, if you prefer to say so, the departments of the Aube, Marne, and Haut-Marne, richly endowed with vineyards, the fame of which is world-wide, are otherwise full of flourishing industries.

Later we found that it weighed 122 pounds avoirdupois, and was not much bigger than a magnum of champagne.

The Old Sweet is, in fact, a delightful old-fashioned resort, respectable and dull, with a pretty park, and a crystal pond that stimulates the bather like a glass of champagne, and perhaps has the property of restoring youth.

By the time the oysters were done twenty bottles of champagne had been emptied, so that when the actual breakfast commenced everybody began to talk at once.

I offered the lady some, she accepted, and everyone began to call for champagne.

The hours passed by in jests and merriment, and when we sat down to supper I made the champagne corks fly to such an extent that the girls began to get rather gay.

Another room to their left had a live band playing something South American just as noisily, Bluey grabbed a couple of glasses of champagne from a passing waiter and gave one to Cat.

He had invited all the other members of the cast, even old Susan Max, who got buccaneerish over the champagne, and talked about the parts she had played with Julius Knight in Australia.

The weather was hot and dry, there wasnt a midge in sight, your mother was wearing a white linen dress, I still had all my hair, my firstborn child was burbling on my back and we were about to go down to the loch and eat strawberries and drink champagne .

Taking two goblets of champagne from a passing footman, Cavilon headed towards her.

She took my arm and we went through to the sitting room, leaving Chad to his cigar and champagne.