Read full poem →He may be sick to see me but he treats me very kind:
He gives me beer and breakfast and a ribbon for my cap,
And I never knew a sweetheart spend her money on a chap."
Dictionary Entry
An alcoholic drink fermented from starch material, commonly barley malt, often with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor.
In a Sentence
“Beer is brewed all over the world.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. beerbeer drinking
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Poetry examples for “beer”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →i forget the mouldy crusts, Suffolk cheese, and i
II beer, on which thou werl starving, in common
cribbed rats and limping mice?
Read full poem →Tobacco, nectar, or the Thespian spring,
Are all but Luther’s beer, to this I sing.
Of this we will sup free, but moderately,
Read full poem →We'd heard Pop was a soft touch but it didn’t seem true. He was a giant
son-of-a-bitch with a beer gut, dressed in his greasy outfit, and with hair
hanging down in his eyes and grease on his chin.
Read full poem →fingered him. More than a year earlier the banks had collapsed. Prohibition
was repealed and my father drank Eastside beer again. But the worst thing
was Dillinger getting it. A lot of people admired Dillinger and it made
Read full poem →S S88 S88eee 2B BEER Re Ae Bee oe eee ae au aun DEE RES ES EE BEE
Read full poem →And with the accustom’d compliment
Of talk, and beef, and frothing beer,
I, my own steward, took my rent,
Read full poem →Over and over they used to ask me,
While buying the wine or the beer,
In Peoria first, and later in Chicago,
Read full poem →And the face that speaks its chief
Delight in beer and roast beef
Before you have seen his eyes, you see