Brandy Faced

I could hear as well as see that brandy-faced rascal Israel Hands plumping down a round-shot on the deck. ❋ Unknown (1883)

I could hear, as well as see, that brandy-faced rascal, Israel Hands, plumping down a round shot on the deck. ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)

As for the girl, you can have her, Tom Trippet, if you take a fancy to her; and as for the Corporal, he may be handed over to my successor in Cutts's: -- for I will have a regiment to myself, that's poz; and to take with me such a swindling, pimping, thieving, brandy-faced rascal as this Brock will never do. ❋ William Makepeace Thackeray (1837)

Lion, where a brandy-faced blacksmith of a landlord used to emerge from the adjoining smithy, to take charge of any one who might arrive per coach for that part of the country. ❋ Robert Smith Surtees (1833)

He had no objection, either, to holding the reins in a wagon behind another kind of horse, -- a slouching, listless beast, with a strong slant to his shoulder and a notable depth to his quarter and an emphatic angle at the hock, who commonly walked or lounged along in a lazy trot of five or six miles an hour; but, if a lively colt happened to come rattling up alongside, or a brandy-faced old horse-jockey took the road to show off ❋ Various (N/A)

He had no objection, either, to holding the reins in a wagon behind another kind of horse, -- a slouching, listless beast, with a strong slant to his shoulder; and a notable depth to his quarter and an emphatic angle at the hock, who commonly walked or lounged along in a lazy trot of five or six miles an hour; but, if a lively colt happened to come rattling up alongside, or a brandy-faced old horse-jockey took the road to show off ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1851)

As we neared, all hats were off, and three cheers -- or at least as many as we could wedge in during the time the cortège took to sweep past us -- were given, our band consisting of three brandy-faced musicians, striking up _God save the King_ -- a compliment which Her Majesty acknowledged by a little mandarining; and before the majority of the passengers had recovered from the astonishment produced by meeting a live Queen on the Thames, the whole fleet had shot out of sight. ❋ Robert Smith Surtees (1833)