The greedy swigging; Conor could imagine the liquid going down, cool and clear, pure as spring water.

In the next room a grizzled man sprawled before a bright television set, swigging now and then from a concave whisky bottle.

Filled, I was sure, with rotund admirals swilling and swigging and occasionally doing a bit of military business.

Gibbs may also have been dismissed from the navy for his drinking, as he is often seen swigging rum from a flask.

"You might offer me a glass of that wine you're swigging," he growled, his natural truculence roused by the awkwardness of the situation.

The days when national newspaper columnists spent the afternoons carving up their enemies and swigging it back at El Vino appear to be over, at least for this correspondent.

As Rayanne Graff might say while swigging on a hip flask and trying desperately to find the perpetually absent Tino: "We had a time, didn't we have a time?"

"In the rural areas, it's the guy sitting on a porch swigging a beer and tossing the cans into the backyard and watching them pile up," said Mr. Perales, the State Social Services Commissioner.

When eating finally became so unpleasant that he was reduced to swigging down high-nutrition supplements, Dr. Fowler sought help from a colleague, Dr. Linda Bartoshuk, a Yale University psychologist specializing in the study of taste.

The Terran creature's name was Jefferson, and it was sweating; it talked jerkily, swigging warm beer down its gullet, moving its big, rough hands aimlessly about, occasionally plucking at its companion's sleeve - and talking, always talking.

But the ties between swinging and swigging have inspired Seagram Americas to promote a drink named after the Setzer Orchestra's hit album, "The Dirty Boogie," which features Mr. Setzer's version of "Jump, Jive an' Wail."

His buddy from the war, Jeeter (Tom Wopat, in an appealing performance), shows up at his trailer and the two share some guy rituals, primarily swigging beer and tossing their empties into a trash bin from the beer drinker's equivalent of 3-point range.

She looks away then comes back and takes a swig.

He took a swig and then turned left on 99.

He took a small swig and tried to make some sense of it all.

He took a swig, watching the Director's work without much interest.

He took a swig, aware of all eyes on him.

I took a swig myself, right out of the bottle.

He took a swig of wine to clear his head.

He pulled a face but continued to take another swig.

"I think there's enough left for everybody to have a swig."

He took a long swig of the now hot coffee.

She took another swig, and I waited for the rest of the story.

I seem to remember it being called "big swig" back in the day.

He held the glass and made her take a healthy swig.

He took a final swig of coffee and set down the cup.

He sat back and took a long swig of beer.

He took a swig and felt the fire go down his throat.

Now you take a swig of this and lie still.

Just the act of taking a swig from the bottle was so foreign to me.

She took the last swig of her drink and put the glass down.

He grabbed a glass of water and took a swig.

She'd have to get something inside her before much longer - even a swig of beer would be better than nothing.

Finally, he took a long swig and sucked it into his whole body.

He stood up and took the last swig from his soda can.

I got up on my feet, took a swig of the Scotch and looked around.

Then she took a swig and handed it back to me to take another.

But he gave up and swigged back his coffee instead.

He swigged and let the fire slide down his throat.

He poured himself a cup of black coffee, swigged it down.

When he had also swigged, he felt a little better.

The dealer reached over for his bottle and swigged again.

He swigged enough Scotch to give him the strength to go back to his seat.

She swigged from the bottle and gave it to Wilt.

Nan rolled her eyes and swigged a bit more wine.

"Here's what I think the show is really about," he said, swigging from a bottle of mineral water.

He took up his drink and swigged it back.

He lifted his cup and swigged the hot tea, loudly.

He swigged from the drinking skin and wondered what the temperature was.

What's worse, they stumble around, swigging it from the bottle.

They had no glasses but Kate did not mind swigging directly from the bottle.

"I've got time," replied the older man, swigging some more.

She'd been swigging coffee since six this morning and hadn't slept more than two hours the night before.

He helped himself to a cold beer, swigging from the bottle and checking everything out.

Louis took the liquor bottle from his brother and swigged it.

I swigged some of my wine, lolled back in the chair.

Steve sits down next to her holding a gun and swigging some alcohol.

He swigged down the last of his now-cool tea and stood.

He had a bottle of cheap booze in his hand, and was swigging from it.

He unscrewed the cap, brought it to his mouth and swigged hard.

He swigged from the pail, then handed it to the younger boy.

Like the return of the plague; health authorities had decided the public must be told, to make sure everyone started swigging olive oil.