I think of Hogg as a sturdy sheep-tender, growing rebellious among the Cheviot flocks, crazed by a reading of the Border minstrelsy, drunken on books, (as his fellows were with "mountain-dew,") and wreaking his vitality on Gaelic rhymes, -- which, it is true, have a certain blush and aroma of the heather-hills, but which never reached the excellence that he fondly imagined belonged to them. ❋ Various (N/A)
The tale was originally told me by an old servant of my father's, an excellent old Highlander, without a fault, unless a preference to mountain-dew, over less potent liquors be accounted one. ❋ Various (N/A)
The tale was originally told me by an old servant of my fathers, an excellent old Highlander, without a fault, unless a preference to mountain-dew over less potent liquors be accounted one. ❋ Unknown (1917)
He wanted to have a dance and plenty of liquor fresh from the mountain-dew district. ❋ Unknown (1902)
We had been saving a thirst all morning, and at a junction went absolutely parched with heat and fatigue for ice and soda, and perhaps a little mountain-dew, for we were very faint. ❋ Unknown (1900)
This good bishop, whose name I forget, was (as I heard the late W. Mackenzie of Muirton assure a party at Dunrobin Castle) several years previously a famous hand at brewing a good glass of whisky, and that he distributed his mountain-dew with a liberal and impartial hand alike to Catholic and to Protestant friends. ❋ Ramsay, Edward B (1874)
She did not complain, but her eyes seemed heavy with the tears she would not shed, and the roses went fading and fading out of her cheeks, till her father became alarmed, and would bid her eat more, and spin less -- to get up early in the morning and drink new milk, "with a drop of mountain-dew in it." ❋ Grace Greenwood (1863)
His delivery was not, like Patrick Henry's, a bolt from Heaven to rend the obstacle and burn up opposition, but a crystal stream flowing smoothly from some rock that had garnered up the mountain-dew and the rain; and he completely informed if he did not like Fisher Ames irresistibly charm. ❋ Unknown (1856)
However, this did not prevent the bottle from being freely passed amongst them; and so cordial were they in embracing it, that Nanny, who sat a little apart, was often called on to replenish it with mountain-dew. ❋ William Carleton (1831)
_Hugh Traynor_, or mountain-dew, and all with good humor, and a strong tendency to happiness, visible in their faces. ❋ William Carleton (1831)
I can readily imagine that in Auld Reekie, and among the proper set, warmed perhaps by a glass of mountain-dew, Sir Walter ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)
But when one is flagging, a little praise (if it can be had genuine and unadulterated by flattery, which is as difficult to come by as the genuine mountain-dew) is a cordial after all. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
-- potatoes in their jackets, and a taste of fat bacon; and if I can wash it down, as I mean to later on, with a drop of mountain-dew, why, it's well ❋ L. T. Meade (1884)
"An 'fellers that like good corn mountain-dew ought to know who makes it. ❋ Unknown (1888)
A'm thinking that the heathen gods didn't eat at all, but sippit and suppit the stuff they got from the top of a mountain somewhere out in those pairts -- I've read it all, laddies, in an auld book called _Pantheon_ -- mixed with dew, mountain-dew. " ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
It's joost a meexture half honey and half whisky, or mountain-dew; and noo ye ken. " ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
