Near Galway the tinkers drove their caravans down to the beach and sang and drank and fought all night.

Bres, who was under an obligation not to refuse hospitality, drank it down without flinching, and it killed him.

Plutarch provides the most evocative version of this story: But when Egypt revolted with Athenian aid ... and Cimon's mastery of the sea forced the King to resist the efforts of the Hellenes and to hinder their hostile growth ... messages came down to Themistocles saying that the King commanded him to make good his promises by applying himself to the Hellenic problem ; then, neither embittered by anything like anger against his former fellow-citizens, nor lifted up by the great honor and power he was to have in the war, but possibly thinking his task not even approachable, both because Hellas had other great generals at the time, and especially because Cimon was so marvelously successful in his campaigns ; yet most of all out of regard for the reputation of his own achievements and the trophies of those early days ; having decided that his best course was to put a fitting end to his life, he made a sacrifice to the gods, then called his friends together, gave them a farewell clasp of his hand, and, as the current story goes, drank bull's blood, or as some say, took a quick poison, and so died in Magnesia, in the sixty-fifth year of his life ... They say that the King, on learning the cause and the manner of his death, admired the man yet more, and continued to treat his friends and kindred with kindness.

: He took the horn and drank it down:

* In the stronghold of the giant Útgarda-Loki, Thor drank three mighty draughts from a horn during a drinking contest but gave up when he was unable to empty the horn of its contents ; this was also one of three tasks he did-and failed-during his stay, the other two being to lift a cat ( he made it lift a paw, leaving three on ground ) and to defeat an old woman ; it's later revealed that the horn was connected to the sea ( which he leveled down by three fingers ), the cat was the World Sepent and the old woman, the Old Age itself.

Bres, who was under an obligation not to refuse hospitality, drank it down without flinching, and it killed him.

They sat and drank at the hotel, which later burned down.

: Sat down, drank off his quart and said,

Or, when the French put him in a furnace, he simply sat down in it and drank tea with Muhammad.

I drank down two buckets of hot mint julep.

Then exhausted with the fighting, they fell down on the pit in the form of pigs and sank into the pit drawing the satin covering under them into the cauldron at the bottom of the pit whereupon they drank the mead and fell asleep.

When finished, the cup is placed open side up at the edge of the table, and the player who drank it attempts to flip the cup, by flicking or lifting the bottom until it flips and lands face down on the table, sitting on its mouth.

I rushed out to the well and drank from the bucket, and then tumbled down in a faint.

Purple drank has been considered to be a major influence in the making of and listening to chopped and screwed music due to its perceived effect of slowing the brain down, giving slow, mellow music its appeal.

But they threw him out and drank the ale, pouring what was left down the street.

At midnight, on 5 March 2000 &# 160 ;— after 12 hours of continual pain, Ramírez sat down on a bench and drank three small glasses of hard liquor.

I took the pint bottle from my pocket and handed it over as I sat down beside him on the spread blanket.

An auxiliary of the Institute in Ohio published a poem with wording such as " down with every " metric " scheme " and " A perfect inch, a perfect pint ".

According to the provisions of this act pub hours were licensed, beer was watered down and was subject to a penny a pint extra tax.

He also appeared in court dressed as a frogman-this followed his " warm-up " for a world frog swallowing record attempt in 1974 when he swallowed a live frog at a Market Drayton pub and washed it down with a pint of " black and tan ".

* If the person who has been pennied catches the coin between his teeth, then the pennier must down his own drink / pint.

This popular event occurs on the second Bank Holiday Weekend in May, and involves participants dressed in comedy costumes, racing down the High Street, stopping in all the pubs for a pint, and then racing through the fields next to the village and back down the High Street, again drinking in the pubs.

The beer engine is a, sometimes, airtight piston chamber ; pulling down on the handle raises the piston which drags up a half pint of beer.

White led the other until it also lay down, he himself was also on the verge of collapse but he managed to bleed the horse and drink half a pint of the blood.

The structure of rye bread is based primarily on the starch in the flour, as well as other carbohydrates known as pentosans ; however, rye amylase is active at substantially higher temperatures than wheat amylase, causing the structure of the bread to disintegrate as the starches are broken down during cooking.

Hammer mills grind the mix of corn, rye and barley malt to break it down for easier cooking.

Since rye gluten is not particularly strong, the main structure of the bread is based on complex polysaccharides, including rye starch and pentosans, and the amylases in the flour can break down the resulting structure, inhibiting the rise of the dough.

Another struck him heavily in the thigh and he went down.

He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.

Once Todman thought he had spotted a tank and went down to investigate while Greg covered him.

But with her hand softly on his cheek for a last moment, she closed the door and he went back down the hall and into his bed excited, expectant, and finally faintly grinning with the feel of her hand against his mouth.

He went down the steps to the galley and sleeping quarters ; ;

They went down in a heap and for a long minute there was nothing to see but flailing arms and legs.

The fist went down into the pile of flesh, and Ernie heard the bigger man's deeper voice go, `` Aaawww ''!!

The rancher went a mile down this road and then, when he reached a big red boulder, swung off the road.

even when the fences became a part of the game -- when a vine-embowered gate-post was the Sleeping Beauty's enchanted castle, or when Rapunzel let down her golden hair from beneath the crocketed spire, even then we paid little heed to those who went by on the path outside.

We went out of the office and down the hall to a window where documents and more officials awaited us, the rest of the office personnel hot upon our heels.

Instead, he went down to New York and submitted Welcome To Our City to the Theatre Guild, which had asked him to let them have a look at it after Professor Baker had recommended it highly.

He set down that `` I gave Mr. Greene a pynte of muskadell and a roll of bread that last morning I went to have his company to Master Attorney ''.

He rose late and went down in his bathrobe and slippers to have breakfast either alone or with Rachel.

Then they went down to Black Bottom.

When the knife went into his chest, he went down at once.

The chief, annoyed by these questions, knocks Voltaire down and shouts at him that he not only never went to any school, but never even learned how to read.

Then he slipped and went down on his hands and knees in the melting snow.

At that moment the bathroom door flew open and Eugene came out, with his face lathered for shaving, and strode down the hall, tying the sash of his dressing gown as he went.

Instead, they went on down the hall to their room.

He went down the hall to Eugene's bathroom, to turn on the hot-water heater, and on the side of the tub he saw a pair of blue wool swimming trunks.

When the telephone rang on the day after Hino went down to the village, Rector had a hunch it would be Hino with some morsel of information too important to wait until his return, for there were few telephones in the village and the phone in Rector's office rarely rang unless it was important.

But she went on down the list.

Miss Ada had giggled, and she went sweeping and rustling to the couch and sank down.

He went down to Mills and Bradley's Hardware Store and bought a full set of carpenter's tools, including a rotary power saw and several other pieces of power machinery that Mr. Mills said were essential for babbiting and doweling, whatever they were.