1 With these words she suddenly splashed a pint of icy water down my neck, and pulled me into the kitchen.
2 While saying this he took a pint bottle of brandy from the dresser, and poured some into a tumbler.
3 She did not stay to retaliate, but re-entered in a minute, bearing a reaming silver pint, whose contents I lauded with becoming earnestness.
4 I was extremely tired, and with that, and the heat of the weather, and about half a pint of brandy that I drank as I left the ship, I found myself much inclined to sleep.
5 There being plenty of gravy to-day, Joe spooned into my plate, at this point, about half a pint.
6 I know, but this is another pint, a separate matter.
7 There's half a pint of ale for you.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME 8 '"De pint is, needer you nor me had no bizness bein' wid Yankees, so dey could 'sult me.'
9 Your woraciousness, fellow-critters, I don't blame ye so much for; dat is natur, and can't be helped; but to gobern dat wicked natur, dat is de pint.
10 'Little now; be very much when cook,' spreading out her hands as if to indicate that the pint would swell to a gallon.
11 Rousing himself sufficiently to sit up and look about him, he found that worthy in close fellowship and communication with a labouring man, over a pint of ale.
12 As he wouldn't go away, and shocked the company very much, our overseer sent him out a pound of potatoes and half a pint of oatmeal.
13 Mr. Bumble rushed to the closet; and, snatching a pint green-glass bottle from the shelf thus incoherently indicated, filled a tea-cup with its contents, and held it to the lady's lips.
14 Yes, sir; eight bottles and a pint.
15 Jean Valjean gruffly and grumblingly paid Marie-Claude for the pint of milk behind their mother's back, and the children were not punished.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN