ardent spirits
Example Sentences
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Yet the nation's most famous glutton spurned ardent spirits for orange juice and lemon pop.
From Time Magazine Archive
The prohibition of the sale of ardent spirits within certain areas has inaugurated a new and beneficial national policy.
From Stand Up, Ye Dead by Norman Maclean
Why should the few be protected from the sale of ardent spirits and the many left to be victims of temptation?
From Stand Up, Ye Dead by Norman Maclean
Though never a strict abstainer, I have wrought as an operative mason for whole twelvemonths together, in which I did not consume half-a-dozen glasses of ardent spirits, or partake of half-a-dozen draughts of fermented liquor.
From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Hugh Miller
We told him that we seldom drank ardent spirits; and I added, that as for myself, I seldom tasted even wine, but, like himself, was content with the use of water.
From The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] by George Henry Borrow
