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1. It was, for all intents and purposes, a rum runner from the mid 20th century, reproduced using what they could of native technology
2. At the Quarter Sessions old Peelers ‘igh in their rum cups
3. rum dry in their mouths and bleary eyes,
4. "Rum and blueberry, the ice has melted
5. Rum and black
6. of the late disturbances, three shillings and sixpence currency, equal to two shillings sterling, a-day ; ship-carpenters, ten shillings and sixpence currency, with a pint of rum, worth sixpence sterling, equal in all to six shillings and sixpence sterling; house-carpenters and bricklayers, eight shillings currency, equal to four shillings and sixpence sterling ; journeymen tailors, five shillings currency, equal to about two shillings and tenpence sterling
7. "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-- Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!"
8. Then he rapped on the door with a bit of stick like a handspike that he carried, and when my father appeared, called roughly for a glass of rum
9. There were nights when he took a deal more rum and water than he needed; and then he would sit and sing his wicked, old, wild sea-songs; or sometimes he would call for drinks all around and force everyone to listen to his stories or listen to his singing
10. Often I have heard the house shaking with "Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum," all the customers joining in for dear life, scared to death of him they were, and each singing louder than the other
11. I followed him in, and I remember seeing the difference between the neat, bright doctor, with his powdered wig, as white as snow and his bright, black eyes and pleasant manners, and , with that filthy, heavy, bleared scarecrow of a pirate of ours, sitting, drunk on rum, with his arms on the table
12. "Were you addressing me, sir?" says the doctor; and the captain replied yes, with a curse, "I have only one thing to say to you, sir," replied the doctor, "that if you keep on drinking rum, you’ll soon be dead!"
13. It is commonly said that a sugar planter expects that the rum and the molasses should defray the whole expense of his cultivation, and that his sugar should be all clear profit
14. She didn’t ask how Janice took her tea she simply made it strong and sweet and then chucked a decent dram of rum into it
15. Janice downed the rum, lay back and, within minutes was asleep again
16. to vodka or rum that was available
17. reek of rum, whisky, vodka and what not
18. If the tobacco of Virginia had been purchased, not with British manufactures, but with the sugar and rum of Jamaica, which had been purchased with those manufactures, he must wait for the returns of three
19. I was carried inside and laid on to a table there was very little anaesthetic on the peninsular and so I was given rum for the pain and to numb me against what was coming
20. “That’s a bloody good idea Billy Boy let’s start as we mean to go on and peg this first class recreation down with either a game of cards or Crown & Anchor and who knows we might find some alcohol somewhere even if it is rum
21. That night Captain Thornley and I had been designated to pick up the rum ration for our section of trench we found our way to the supply point fairly easily and picked up the large stone bottle of rum and then made our way back
22. The journey back was pretty uneventful apart from a bit of fire that flew overhead from a German fixed machine gun there was nothing else and we arrived safely back at our lines with the precious rum
23. The lads were glad to get this ration as it was one of the main things that lifted their spirits in the trenches and most people looked forward to their rum ration with great anticipation
24. The rum came in large two gallon stone jars that were heavy and awkward to carry but before I could pick them up a bombshell comes my way
25. The foreign articles, of the most general use and consumption in Great Britain, seem at present to consist chiefly in foreign wines and brandies ; in some of the productions of America and the West Indies, sugar, rum, tobacco, cocoa-nuts, etc
26. I ditched the rum ration in order to survive and found shelter from the whizzing bullets in a shell hole
27. However he was never sent for the rum ration again neither were me or him very popular that night when the lads found out that their rum ration had been lost
28. What are called the excise duties upon rum imported, are at present levied in this manner ; and the same system of administration might, perhaps, be extended to all duties upon goods imported ; provided always that those duties were, like the duties of excise, confined to a few sorts of goods of the most general use and consumption
29. Sugar, rum, and tobacco, are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are, therefore, extremely proper subjects of taxation
30. The blacks, accordingly, have almost everywhere their allowance of rum, and of molasses or spruce-beer, in the same manner as the white servants ; and this allowance would not probably be withdrawn, though those articles should be subjected to moderate duties
31. If the sugar and rum annually sent to the mother-country were paid for in those colonies, Great Britain would be obliged to send out, every year, a very large balance in money ; and the trade to the West Indies would, by a certain species of politicians, be considered as extremely
32. Their rents are remitted to them in sugar and rum, the produce of their estates
33. The sugar and rum which the West India merchants purchase in those colonies upon their own account, are not equal in value to the goods which they annually sell there
34. “Right you pair I want you to go to the stores and pick up our rum ration I think we deserve it after putting things to rights here”, and he gave them a chit for the rum
35. Ted had a flask in which he had poured some rum we had a few drinks then waited a while longer
36. Earlier on we had breakfast and we had tea served with rum init and believe you me that was a drink fit for heroes
37. Titus Finch of the Rum Street Co
38. Hundreds of torches were lit, while the crowd of nobles, courtiers, captains, citizens, and slaves, went mad with transports of joy, excitement, and rum
39. Many of the pirates had assumed an early victory and were already half sloshed with ale, rum, and wine
40. At the Castle the carriers were constantly returning in gangs, and being paid off; the rum shanties did a roaring trade
41. “Best take it slow mate, there’s a tot of rum in there
42. Stir in cake crumbs and rum
43. He spent his days drinking Flor de Caña rum in a rented room in Bluefields which, with the shifting wind, smelled alternately of fish or hot tar from a nearby asphalt plant
44. Sitting on the cot in my shorts, I had a jolt of Navy Rum while waiting for them to leave
45. I gulped a glass of rum, slowly, as they looked at each other, consulting silently
46. He sipped at the rum, and I could see that he was very, very tired, and so I read a few more papers
47. His eyes took in the bottles of rum visible as Howard-Smythe rummaged in a drawer for some suitable booze holders
48. He had visions of British naval power at its height and the traditional tot of rum
49. A gill of rum per day, which is why half of them signed on, and why the other half didn’t desert, as Nelson said
50. “Does it have rum in it? She makes very good rum drinks, I’ll give her that