Sentence examples for a good draught from inspiring English sources

("His Lordship would often drinke a good draught of strong beer to-bedwards to lay his working fancy asleep," John Aubrey relates, in his "Brief Lives," of Francis Bacon).

If, for example, you have a south facing conservatory adjoining a north facing room, you should draw air in from the bottom of windows in this room to get a good draught of cooler air flowing into the conservatory.

Although double glazing and carpets are a good start, draught proofing and insulation of suspended floors will be a benefit and for solid floors, the addition of thick underlay and/or insulation.

The size of the air inlet inducing an effective draught effect is discussed.

Though tithed to Enterprise Inns, it offers a good choice of bottled and draught beers, the latter from Purity Brewing including the smooth Mad Goose, the fruity LongHorn IPA and the citrusy Pure Gold.

Most of the draught beer is British, with a good range of local names – Yorkshire has a strong brewing tradition – but inspiration for the bar itself came from abroad.

The same gift of the gab that a good hotel manager deploys to schmooze an irate guest complaining about draughts made the difference between life and death; he cajoled and coaxed, flattered and deceived, lied and bribed.

I deduced the last occupants must have been left wing from the ragged copies of the New Statesman piled up in the recycling, and the yellowing pages of The Guardian stuffed between beams to act as draught excluders – a novel use for that newspaper – which continue to do a good job.

This can be a good thing when it's cold and damp outside but not always helpful during a heatwave when a nice draught could make all the difference.

Cooking great steak is as simple as a good cut of meat, seasoned and cooked in a hot, heavy frying pan, then rested well in a draught-free place.

And we'll take a right good-will draught, for auld lang syne.