alcoholic liquor
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That year all the children in his class at the parish church pledged themselves to drink no alcoholic liquor before their majority.
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Buddhism forbids killing, stealing, adultery, lying, use of alcoholic liquor.
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The juice is sensibly acid, and is capable of being, by fermentation, converted into vinegar, and, mixed with water or the dregs of beer, yields, by distillation, an alcoholic liquor.
From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)
Hot beverages will warm the skin more rapidly and powerfully than any alcoholic liquor.
From Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Allen, Martha Meir
Since in the hot plains of India abstinence from alcoholic liquor has become a principal religious tenet of high-caste Hindus, Soma is naturally no more heard of.
From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) by Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane)