"Potheen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I owe this visit, Mr Gillooly?" asked my mother, perhaps not altogether liking his looks, for I rather think his feelings had been excited by a few sips of potheen. Her natural politeness, however, induced her to rise and offer him a chair, into which, after a few more scrapes and flourishes of the hat, he sank down, placing his beaver and his whip ...
— Ben Burton - Born and Bred at Sea • W. H. G. Kingston |
