sherris

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• Tennyson had his port, whereto clings a good old tradition; sherris sack belongs to a nobler age; these drinks are not for us.

• Falstaff, reeling home from Dame Quickly's Tavern with his load of sherris-sack, may have sat here to ponder on his honour.

• But the sherris warms it, and makes its course from the inwards to the parts extreme.

• And for dinner was corned beef and carrots, and for drink sherris-sack and muscadel.

• And then, why, Ive a few bottles of Geldinos sherris thatthat Ill not open save on the rarest occasion.