His other lady teacher, Miss Alviry Sawyer, she was a single-handed maiden lady long'bout wife's age, an 'she didn't have a feature on earth thet a friend would seem to have a right to mention, she not bein' to blame; but she had a way o 'clairin' her th'oat, sort ❋ Ruth McEnery Stuart (1886)
One of them, a stocky shirtless man waving a sloshing plastic cup of clairin -- a clear, highly potent type of rum popular in the city's slums -- clambers onto the roof. ❋ Manuel Roig-Franzia (2010)
Each person placed clairin, a white, raw sugarcane rum; Bar-bancourt rum; a bottle of strawberry fruit punch; or perfume vials on the altar. ❋ Sabrina Lamb (2010)
Then, as I knelt, he inverted a bottle of clairin, causing it to bubble in a peculiar manner—a certain sign, I was told, that my desires would be fulfilled. ❋ Wade Davis (1985)
LaBonté placed this powder in my protection bottle, adding white sugar, basil leaves, seven drops of rum, seven drops of clairin, and a small amount of cornmeal. ❋ Wade Davis (1985)
Apparently the spirits could be greedy, for soon two other hounsis were possessed, and for an extraordinary thirty minutes the peristyle was utter pandemonium, with the mambo racing about, spraying rum and libations of water and clairin, directing the spirits with the rhythm of her asson. ❋ Wade Davis (1985)
It consisted of a handful of bayahond leaves (Prosopis juliflora), three branches of ave (Petiveria alliacea), clairin, ammonia, and three ritualistically prepared lemons. ❋ Wade Davis (1985)
Women continued to mingle about, and the old men on the cane-bottomed chairs passed bottles of clairin peppered with roots and herbs. ❋ Wade Davis (1985)
Isnard was equally uncomfortable, yet our presence challenged his pride to display his knowledge of the Bizango, and in a foolish gesture he pulled a demijohn of clairin from his hip pocket and stood up to propose a toast. ❋ Wade Davis (1985)
This plant material was ground with a quarter-ounce of rock salt, then added to an enamel basin containing ten crushed mothballs, a cup of seawater, several ounces of clairin or cane alcohol, a bottle of perfume, and a quarter-liter of a solution purchased from the local apothecary and known as magie noire—black magic. ❋ Wade Davis (1985)
She's tallored him for his long division, an 'she's tallered him for that blemish on Miss Phoebe's cheek, an' she's tallered him for clairin 'of his th'oat. ❋ Ruth McEnery Stuart (1886)
Having rubbed one’s hands with the protective lotion—again a mixture of lemons, ammonia, and clairin—the killer sprinkled the powder in the form of a cross on the ground, while naming the intended victim. ❋ Wade Davis (1985)
"I set em to clairin ', but they aint doin' a dam thing -- not a dam thing, they aint; that's wat they are doin ', that is -- not a dam thing. ❋ Unknown (1856)
