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And the taste of that same peat would be in the cup he sipped from as he tippled the local usquebaugh, or whisky, as he sipped the distillation of his own land, the very definition of terroir.

He was busy saving it with Mother Marian and the usquebaugh.

They took away his pen and poured him several bumpers of usquebaugh, not forgetting to take a nip or two themselves.

Manus rubbed his eyes and looked right and left, before and behind; and there were the vessels of gold and the vessels of silver, the dishes, and the plates, and the cups, and the punch-bowls, and the tankards: there was the golden mether, too, that every Thierna at his wedding used to drink out of to the kerne in real usquebaugh.

The world loved him, and he saw no good reason why he should not in return love its venison and usquebaugh.