Sentence examples for branch water from inspiring English sources

He has always preferred the hard stuff, undiluted by the branch water of euphemism.

Perhaps the senior senator from Kentucky could offer a bottle of his state's smoothest bourbon, and the president could provide the branch water.

You weren't supposed to drink it — people said you could get chills and fevers, by which they meant malaria, from drinking branch water — but it looked clean enough to drink.

"It reminds me of the Sichuan restaurants in New York," said Mr. Grossman, who lived in Queens before moving to Houston and opening Branch Water Tavern (510 Shepherd Drive, branchwater tavern.com).

The yacht was one of the more cost-effective federal expenses; an evening cruise on the Potomac and a glass of bourbon and branch water aboard the USS Sequoia was a cheaper way to secure a senator's vote on some bill or treaty than green-lighting a redundant "water project".

Dallek said, "Johnson could sit with Everett Dirksen, the Republican leader, kneecap to kneecap, drinking bourbon and branch water, and Dirksen would mention that there was a fine young man in his state who would be a fine judge, and the deal would be cut.

In real environments, due to various and complex background types such as moving escalators, waving tree branches, water fountains, and flickering monitors, background subtraction is a difficult task.

Inside trunks and branches, water columns move from the roots to the leaves.

Starlings housed in cages enriched with branches, water baths and a substrate for probing have been found to demonstrate more optimistic behaviour, possibly indicative of a more positive affective state characteristic of reduced anxiety [23], [24].

The birds were kept in two indoor free-flight aviaries (20 birds per aviary), measuring 215 × 340 cm and 220 cm high, which were enriched with natural tree branches, water baths, perches and trays containing bark.

By Monica Dias PORTLAND COTTAGE, Jamaica, 23 August , 2007– Amid the rubble and clothes spread out to dry on fallen tree branches, water soaked mattresses and pieces of furniture, the children of Portland Cottage cling shyly to their mothers for safety.