Kvass

Another drink is kvass which is generally sold by old ladies from a miniature tanker at a dirt cheap price. ❋ Unknown (2010)

On departure day, I said a final good morning to the cats in the Europa Royal hotel courtyard, purchased an amber necklace I'd admired on Smilsu iela and settled into a café to sip one last kvass, a fermented drink. ❋ Kathy Reichs (2011)

Russia has gone back to rule by a czar, who has revived the ancient traditions: vodka and kvass and birch juice, tile ovens, Orthodox churches. ❋ Tom Shippey (2011)

Her mother, Itke (the daughter of Kadish Katz/Kaplan, for whom Kadya was named), ran a dry-goods shop, and later opened a factory for making rye kvass. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A sampling: Yermak Named after the 16th-century Cossack leader famous for his exploits in the Siberian wilderness, this rustic spot offers wild-animal meats and forest berries, plus just-baked black bread and homemade kvass, the quintessential Cossack aperitif. ❋ Unknown (2007)

They served, too, a pie with onion and steamed turnip with kvass. ❋ Unknown (2004)

When the garden was done, Maria brought cold water for Arkady and Eva and kvass for Roman. ❋ Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- (2004)

They drank kvass made of red bilberries, juniper-berries, or of bread — Antonina Ivanovna always carried a stock of different kinds of kvass. ❋ Unknown (2003)

“Waiter!” said Mayakin, gently, on entering the hall of the hotel, and turning toward a remote corner, “let us have a bottle of moorberry kvass.” ❋ Unknown (2003)

He sat by the table, and, bending over it, made drawings of patterns on the tray, dipping his trembling finger in the spilt kvass, and his sharp-pointed head was sinking lower and lower over the table, as though he did not decipher, and could not make out what his bony finger was drawing on the tray. ❋ Unknown (2003)

He also brought a bottle of kvass, taken from the kitchen for them to try. ❋ Unknown (2003)

But as the captain had the wine they had taken while passing through Moscow, he left the kvass to Morel and applied himself to the bottle of Bordeaux. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Dick, having turned an ankle in a too ambitious telemark, loafed gratefully about the “nursery slope” with the children or drank kvass with a Russian doctor at the hotel. ❋ Unknown (2003)

One day after luncheon I poured myself out a glass of kvass, and then dropped the decanter, and so stained the tablecloth. ❋ Unknown (2003)

His Uncle Fortescue had drunk poisoned kvass in Circassia, and his father had been attempting to ice-skate on the frozen Minnesota River when he was overwhelmed by a band of Cree Indians. ❋ Larry McMurtry (1997)

His Uncle Fortescue had drunk poisoned kvass in Circassia, and his father had been attempting to ice - skate on the frozen Minnesota River when he was overwhelmed by a band of Cree Indians. ❋ Larry McMurtry (1995)

Lampglow, smoke, smells of kvass and cookery, spilled from a half-open door. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1989)

It's [so hot], I'd [chug] [a jug] of kvass right now. ❋ TObject (2004)

Slav 1:I made kvass yesterday [Gopnik]: Oy [blin]! give me sum of that [cheeki breeki] ❋ Mjolkpaket (2017)