"Rummer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... devoted his time to billiards, steeple-chasing, and the turf. His head-quarters are 'Rummer's,' in Conduit Street, where he keeps his kit; but he is ever on the move in the exercise of his vocation as a ...
— The Book of Snobs • William Makepeace Thackeray
... a blithe hame-comer Whan first I syndit out my rummer. Ye should hae seen me then, wi' care The less important pairts prepare; Syne, weel contentit wi' it a', Pour in the sperrits wi' a jaw! I didnae drink, I didnae speak, - I only snowkit up the reek. I was sae pleased therein to paidle, I sat ...
— Underwoods • Robert Louis Stevenson
... in, said it was cold, Then put to his head the rummer; Till swallow after swallow came, When he ...
— The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; • Various
... tasks completed. Over his head is a suitable electric lamp. In his mouth is a pipe with that fine wine-dark mahogany sheen that resides upon excellent briar of many years' service. He has had (though I speak only by guess) a rummer of hot toddy to celebrate the greatest of all Evenings. At his elbow is a porthole, brightly curtained with a scrap of clean chintz, and he can hear the swash of the seas along his ship's tall side. And now he is reading. I can see him reading. I know just how his mind feels! Oh, the Perfect ...
— Plum Pudding - Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned • Christopher Morley
... put the tobacco-pipes, some spirits, a rummer and water on the table, and the spittoon at his feet, she put on her bonnet, and off we set to the doctor's house, about half a mile distant. I was soon on intimate terms with Bessy: there was something so frank and winning about her, such perfect honesty of character, that it was impossible ...
— Poor Jack • Frederick Marryat
... man did not stir until his officer was out of sight; and then he arose and rubbed himself, but did not care to go for his rummer ...
— Mary Anerley • R. D. Blackmore
... narrow main street. Every now and then Carlos Riego coughed lamentably, but Tomas Castro rode in gloomy silence. There was a light here and there in a window, but not a soul stirring abroad. On the blind of an inn the shadow of a bearded man held the shadow of a rummer ...
— Romance • Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
... tutor to the sons of the Earl of Buchan at Edinburgh (see Letter to George Dyer, "Bookman" for May 1910), came to nothing. A meeting was held among his chief friends "one evening," says Cottle, "at the Rummer Tavern, to determine on the size, price, and time of publishing, with all other preliminaries essential to the launching this first-rate vessel on the mighty deep. Having heard of the circumstance the next day, I rather wondered at not having also been requested to attend, and ...
— Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. • Coleridge, ed. Turnbull |
