At this, Teach, hatless and shoeless, and, says his biographer, "a little flushed with drink"-as a man might be who spent most of his waking hours swigging pure rum-stumbled up on deck and made a proposal to his bored companions.
"Plotting in Pirate Seas"
Francis Rolt-Wheeler
I'm sorry, swigging down what he had poured, but I wasn't listening very closely.
"The Bad Man"
Charles Hanson Towne
We had a political tea that afternoon: all the leaders of the Levies, old Raja Akbar Khan, Humayun, Taifu, the Nagar Wazir, Shah Mirza, and one or two princelings who had come up to see some fighting, all squatted round our little room on the straw, swigging sweet tea and munching biscuits, quite a friendly gathering; in fact, so much tea was consumed that the mess president swore he would send in a bill.
"With Kelly to Chitral"
William George Laurence Beynon