Read full poem →But suppose you are really a lady, and have delicate tastes,
And loathe the smell of whiskey and onions,
And the rhythm of Wordsworth’s “Ode” runs in your ears,
Dictionary Entry
A liquor distilled from the fermented mash of grain (as rye, corn, or barley).
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “whiskey”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →writers have shown us how much a part of life the
whiskey and soda was to the higher class Englishman,
while the workingman regaled himself with ale and beer.
Read full poem →Whiskey-fumes within me burning like a molten reservoir--
Read full poem →times not their normal selves? When they're full up with wine or
beer or whiskey, when they're courting, when they're pursuing some
illicit love, when after fifty they get a little odd in their ways
Read full poem →O' sour disdain,
Out owre a glass o' whiskey punch
Wi' honest men;