Crossword-Solution: MARNIER 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

There was a great deal of drinking at such affairs; and though she rather liked cordials, crême de thé and Grand Marnier, even stronger things flavored with limes and an occasional frigid cocktail, she disliked--from a slight experience--men affected by drink.

The two lingered long over their coffee, and the "Grand Marnier" which their liking for "The Garden of Lies" led to their ordering.

But it was cold outside, with wind around the edges of the tall buildings and December just up the street, so better far an evening together under the soft lamplight and a drink or two of Bushmill's, or a thimbleful of Maury's Grand Marnier, with the books gleaming like ornaments against the walls, and Maury radiating a divine inertia as he rested, large and catlike, in his favorite chair.

They would go saying, 'Can she be as beautiful as her portrait?' And they would come back saying, 'She is lovelier still!' Let me give you some more wine." "No more; I'll have coffee, and a grand marnier--red." "Doubtless the more expensive colour!" reflected Goujaud.

This man descending the stairs with a limp was the Commandant Marnier, of the 193rd Regiment, wounded in 1915, and now attached to the General Staff.