C. J. Morse: One strong draught to make you snuffle: another to pep you up (3 meanings).
Enquiries established that both water gauges were defective and on a journey earlier that day one or both of the fusible plugs had melted, but this had gone unnoticed by the engine crew because of the strong draught carrying the escaping steam away from them.
They are considered dual-purpose, being valued for their meat and milk (producing cheese), and were also used as strong draught oxen in former times.
On the city's central square, it is an unabashed homage to the Wisconsin supper club, with a 50-strong draught beer list — almost all Wisconsin brews — and a menu featuring locally sourced meats, cheeses and fish, as well as a choice of two or three "lazy susan" appetizer platters that hark back to the crudité-and-cheese trays of yore.
For Faust, as for Werther before him, ordinary existence is flavorless and intolerable; like an alcoholic, he demands ever-stronger draughts of emotional intoxication.
The site tests demonstrated higher flue gas temperatures and stronger draughts than what specified for the EN standard tests.
At around midnight an officer comes in and gives him a strong sleeping draught.
"He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself," warns Nietzsche: "he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain".
("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).
Jonson said of his mother that when he was in prison in 1605 – another play, another scandal – she prepared a draught of "strong lustie poison" for him to take if he was convicted, and to show "she was no churle … she minded first to have drunk of it herself".
It manufactures beer under the brand names Kingfisher, Kingfisher Premium, Kingfisher Strong, Kingfisher Strong Fresh, Kingfisher Draught, Kingfisher Ultra, Kingfisher Blue, Kingfisher Red, Kingfisher Bohemia, Zingaro, UB Export, UB Export Strong, London Pilsner Premium Strong, Kalyani Black Label Strong and Bullet.
