"Angostura bark" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... N. bitterness, acridness[obs3], acridity, acrimony; caustic, alkali; acerbity; gall, wormwood; bitters, astringent bitters. [additive for alcoholic beverages]Angostura aromatic bitters. sourness &c. 397; pungency &c. 392. [bitter substances] alkaloids; turmeric. Adj. bitter, bitterish, acrid, acerb, acerbic. Phr. bitter as gall; bitter pill to take; sugar coating on ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... the city and send the rest to Guayana, under the command of Marino. The men left in Barcelona were sacrificed by the royalists. In April Bolivar crossed the Orinoco and afterwards met Piar, who was besieging the City of Angostura, the most important position of Guayana. Piar had been fighting in that section with some success since the end ...
— Simon Bolivar, the Liberator • Guillermo A. Sherwell
... the early days of my trances I was much haunted by the spirit of a certain cocktail—blended, I believe, of champagne and angostura—which insisted that it would be inconsolable until it could get in contact with Quimbleton and reassure him as to the certainty of its existence beyond mortal bars. The deep affection and old comradeship evidently cherished ...
— In the Sweet Dry and Dry • Christopher Morley
... you're quite old enough to have a drink. Come into the club and partake of a gin-and-angostura, old man. ...
— The Ghost - A Modern Fantasy • Arnold Bennett |
