Crossword-Solution: BUMPERED 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

Jacob Bumble now favoured us with a song, that sounded as if he had been barrelled up in a puncheon, and was cantando through the bunghole; then Rubiochico sang, and the Don sang, and we all sang and bumpered away; and Mr Seco got on the table, and gave us the newest quadrille step; and, in fine, we were all becoming dangerously drunk.

Presently my aunt rose, and we were left to our bottle, and sorry am I to say it, I bumpered away, from some strong unaccountable impulse, until I got three parts drunk, to the great surprise of the rest of the party, for guzzling wine was not certainly a failing of mine, unless on the strong provocation of good fellowship.

Though the Seventh were not notoriously deadly, in the war that followed, only the shortest of memories--or, indeed, the most glowing of patriotism--could have erased the brother-love, then and there bumpered down! Under the hills of the cemetery--the dirty, dull canal creeping between them--stand the buildings, dam and powerful pumps of the water service; ordinarily more than adequate for all uses.

The Corporation of Christ-church, years ago, smoked cigars, and drank with them that then famous concoction known as 'Ringwood Beer.' What was the result? The first toast at every civic banquet held for years in that borough was gravely given out, and bumpered with due solemnity, as follows:-- 'Prosperation to this Corporation.' Brandy is a perfect antidote to inebriation from beer, so we are told.