Sentences with phrase «stiff drink while»

Arriving in London for his daughter's marriage, the tired traveler, who had to fortify himself with a good stiff drink while flying, finds himself alone in a hotel room while the rest of the wedding party share a rented home nearby.

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When the first high heels and the huge black wing - tips of the lawyers and the businessmen came smashing down on the soldiers, Korczak suddenly stooped down and gathered me up on his lap, his stiff beard sweeping back and forth across my head while he laughed and drank, waving his arms and shouting at the guests to watch where they stepped until at last my grandmother took me up to bed.

Crawling home at night, she revivifies by pulling out her pots and pans, often while pouring a good stiff drink.