samagon

Example Sentences

• "Some months ago several young men accused a shaman of faking and in the argument which followed he was killed. They had been drinking samagon, doubly violating the laws, but it shows a changed public opinion from the old belief that anybody who laughed at or touched a shaman would be struck dead."
• "He shut the door, pulled out from a sack a flask of samagon and offered it to the chairman with the words, ‘Take it, tovarishtsh. I’ve made it myself, excellent brew, you will like it.’"
• "The swarthy young delegate from the sheet-metal shop reported: “Zaporozhe is surrounded by an ocean of samagon. The kulaks distill it in tons from last year’s surplus harvest. They flood it into the city through a joint behind the Peasants’ House.[…]”"
• "Beer was still home-brewed and only the strictest fiscal control could prevent the distilling of samagon, the Russian equivalent of poteen."
• "If the young men got tipsy with such frightening regularity, it was chiefly because the family earned its living by the distilling and selling of samagon, home-made vodka."
• "There were many familiar faces around the table; the meal was lavish and instead of the stinking samagon Bobkov used to drink so heavily, there was good vodka from Moscow and excellent wines from the Caucusus."