Brother Justice found their stories, sputtered for the price of a few cheap ales, quite interesting.

Two men bit on that white streak, and neither ever knew it was more than a scrap of idle talk over cheap ale.

She took the order from the three - no surprise here, just three more mugs of the cheapest ale - then turned to the bar.

She felt his hot breath on her neck, smelled the stench of the cheap ale.

Thought came slowly, as if the cheap ale still flooded his veins.

For cheap ale, it wasn't half bad, he concluded.

The smell of sour wine, cheap ale, and un- washed bodies flooded out to meet us.

"This shabby old troll couldn't buy a tankard of cheap ale, much less me."

He passed up the cheap ale; they put something in it that made you sleep like a log so you'd be fresh in the morning.

"They've discovered that a trapper is easier to bargain with if he's a little drunk, so they make the ale cheap and plentiful."