Crossword-Solution: PONCH 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

But I got a wife an' nine kids back there in the mountains, an' I'm a-goin' to deputize you." The half-breed shot him a look of sudden alarm: "_Non_! _Non_! Better I lak' I ponch de cattle.

Why should there not be a Neapolitan ice _café_ like this in London? Ices we have, and we have Granger's; but here is ice in every variety, from the solid "bombe"--which we strongly recommend ladies to bear in mind next time--to the appetizing _Ponch à la Romaine_! Again, sitting here on summer evenings, the lounger will perceive dapper _bonnes_, or men-servants, going in and out with little shapely white paper parcels which they hold daintily by the end.

From him came also, a little later, our official welcome: when we all were assembled for a _ponch d'honneur_ at the Hôtel du Louvre--in the great vaulted chamber that once served the Templars as a refectory, and that has been the banquet-hall of the Félibrige ever since this later and not less honorable Order was founded, almost forty years ago.

You like a glass of rack-ponch?" "Yes, sir, I like it." "Then I have none here; but I have in my pocket a Chinese dollar.

The old half-breed leaned slightly forward in the saddle: "W'at de hell! W'at de hell! W'at de hell you wan' wit de ponch on de nose--but you git wan jes' de sam'!" As he spoke, his fist shot out and landed squarely in the man's face, and as he staggered back into the cabin, the half-breed put spurs to his horse and the two rode swiftly into the dark.