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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Buddhism forbids killing, stealing, adultery, lying, use of alcoholic liquor.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

I gave them a splendid lunch, but of course, as in previous years, without a drop of alcoholic liquor.

From The Schoolmaster by Constance Garnett

When Pizarro invaded Peru he found this same cereal used by the natives not only for food but also for making alcoholic liquor, in spite of the efforts of the Incas to enforce prohibition.

From Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Edwin E. Slosson


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