Sentence examples for offered a drink of from inspiring English sources

He was also offered a drink of snake's blood.

Machado gave Coolidge a Panama hat, and there was much speculation about how the American president, whose country was in the midst of Prohibition, would navigate the etiquette challenge of being offered a drink of Cuban rum.

The executioner offered a drink of water, and then continued with his grim duty.

And survival in public education means getting the funding dangled like a carrot by our federal government (or perhaps a better metaphor is a dehydrated man crawling across a desert offered a drink of water).

I was offered a drink a couple of times — one shopper had discarded his on the purple-felt pool table on the second floor.

My order was slightly delayed and a member of staff kindly offered a drink while I waited.

He's a 56-year-old sculptor who freely offers a drink from the bottle of cognac he carries "American style," he says — in a plastic deli bag.

Or do we seem desirable -- rare and valuable -- because there is something about us that professes to offer a drink from the fountain of everlasting new-th?

In a conference room appointed with red leather chairs, Nolasco offered me a drink of javelí, his favorite varietal — "It's afternoon in Europe," he said, smiling.

The material was rewritten, but hewed closely to precise details in Mr. Griffin's 258-page book, such as a description of Mr. Hemingway's treatment and surgery for a shooting wound, from the smell of antiseptic and blood in the clinic to the Italian doctor who offered him a drink of cognac as an anesthetic.

I was ill with stomach cramps in a field and a man who was a stranger to me came up and offered me a drink of wine which I did not want, but which out of the courtesy of his kindness, I accepted.