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Usage examples of ale.

A hogshead of ale was abroach under an oak, and a fire was blazing in an open space before the trees to roast the fat deer which the foresters brought.

When they stopped for the night at a wayside inn, Seregil retired immediately, leaving alec to sit alone over his ale in the common room.

She or he would be drinking in heroic fashion, perhaps yards of real Earth ale, shooting them back with raw alk boiling in dry ice.

Mac Ard was leaning toward Maeve, his arms on the table, his hands curled around a mug of the ale, and her mam was talking.

In the end Axel wiped his hands on his apron and poured a cup of ale, sending it over with the boy, who peered at Julian hopefully from behind a curtain of sleek brown hair.

Liam accepted a cup of ale from Axel and drank thirstily, the pale liquid dribbling down his chin to stain his shirt.

With a grunt, he went through to the grog-shop, whence were borne odours of sausage, ale, wine, tar and sweat on gusts of argument, laughter, bawdry and alleged song.

The air in the courtyard smelled of stale ale and urine, and at the far end of the atrium stood a begrimed building that might once have been white.

And so six times a day all traffic on the carriageway was forced to halt for twenty minutes while that beneath floated through on the tide: hoys and shallops headed upstream with loads of malt and dried haddock, bumboats and pinnaces going downstream with hogsheads of ale and sugar for the merchantmen at Tower Dock, sometimes even the yacht of the King himself on its way to the races at Greenwich, masts swaying and sails crackling.

They had brought old sail canvas from the carack and made shelters along the strand, where beef was still roasting and the ale granted them by their captain was doled out sparingly.

Zinnsoldaten zu dem alten Mann hinauf, welcher den Vorgang vom Fenster aus mit angesehen hatte.

Gebeine wohl so ziemlich dieselben waren wie seine alten, bedeckte sie jetzt festes, lebendes Fleisch.

I always ask advice of a flaggon of ale, and mature my plan over a cold venison-pasty.

Cassie accepted a sherry, Lewis a Coca-Cola, Maureen a daring port and lemon, the Gaffer half of old ale.

She paused, wishing she had a mug of the sharp, dark germander ale that her father had brewed in his inn.