• He had preferred an intimate burial at the small brandy-making town to a state funeral in Paris.

    CNN: France and the world honor Mitterrand

  • Mrs Thatcher called for a brandy - not for Sir Geoffrey but for the poor waitress, whom she proceeded to comfort.

    BBC: Margaret Thatcher: Former Welsh Tory leader's memories

  • Distillates -- like cognac, Armagnac and brandy -- are an oft-overlooked category in the bar industry, according to Pour Vous general manager Steve Livigni.

    BBC: Vive la France in Los Angeles

  • Whilst your relatives are sleeping off Christmas dinner, you can jot down all those fabulous ideas you had after your third helping of brandy-soaked Christmas Pudding.

    FORBES: The Author's Notebook

  • From 12-year-old stocks, this brandy is forceful, filled-in, and elegant, with mingled notes of caramel and pear.

    FORBES: Armagnac

  • The proposed group's vodka-to-scotch-to-brandy range was one reason why analysts acclaimed the deal.

    ECONOMIST: Guinness and GrandMet

  • As the afternoon wears on and the mountains are stained gold and pink, deepening into purple twilight, we sip one flavoured brandy after another - blueberry, beech leaf, rowanberry - and listen as everyone round the table competes to tell anecdotes of local life.

    BBC: Snowbound Slovenia

  • Marvin Sands skipped crucial, time-consuming steps in production, but spiked the product with 190-proof brandy.

    FORBES: Up From the Gutter

  • Brandy Brown, a 25-year-old English and journalism major at the University of Texas, expected her benefits as an Air Force veteran to cover the assorted costs of college this semester.

    FORBES: Money Builder

  • Deploying British Columbia-grown fruit to full effect, the company concocts 25 spirits on site, including fruit liquors such as blueberry and sea buckthorn, and a taste bud-popping prune brandy called Old Italian.

    BBC: Grape-free guzzling in Canada��s wine country

  • Brandy offers strength in depth up-front for Swansea as the 19-year-old Old Trafford rookie faces competition from Gorka Pintado, Andrea Orlandi, Guillem Bauza and last season's top-scorer Jason Scotland.

    BBC: Brandy makes Swans goal promise

  • Brandy was reacquainted with his Swansea team-mates on Tuesday evening as the Championship new boys jetted off for their pre-season tour to Spain.

    BBC: Brandy makes Swans goal promise

  • "There was very little in the way of intervention in Victorian times - sometimes spirits such as brandy or whiskey were used as tonics, and occasionally sedatives were prescribed, " he said.

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  • His personal study, which was designed to house a 17-by-28-foot Persian rug from the late 1800s, is filled from floor to ceiling with valuables, ranging from gilded fore-edge books to war memorabilia, a brandy bottle left in his guest house by Kennedy Onassis, and even what he says is Sitting Bull's pipe.

    NPR: 'I Love Mysteries,' Says Man Claiming Hidden Gold

  • Though geography is offered as a sobering up after the intoxications of end-of-history ideology, it soon reveals itself as another brandy bottle, with intoxications of its own.

    NEWYORKER: Faces, Places, Spaces

  • Add the sherry or Madeira and brandy and beat on low speed until incorporated, then beat on medium-high speed until the mixture is smooth and fluffy, 1 to 2 minutes.

    NPR: Two Centuries of 'Baking in America'

  • The first famous regular, Daniel Webster, liked to sit at the U-shaped raw bar downstairs - still in use today - and enjoy three dozen raw oysters with a tumbler of brandy with.

    FORBES: Union Oyster House, Boston

  • In previews for the 1997 TV movie, Houston's Fairy Godmother and pop singer Brandy's title character were much hyped, but the Rob Marshall-directed production itself was stolen by old pros Bernadette Peters as the stepmother, Victor Garber and Whoopee Goldberg as the King and Queen, and Jason Alexander as a kind of singing, dancing, pratfalling George Costanza.

    WSJ: Cinderella: That Flexible Fairy Tale

  • True to Benedictine rules of self-sufficiency, Father Rainer saw the future in apple cider and brandy, damson, sloe and elderberry gin.

    BBC: Eat your way around Yorkshire

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