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 Maclean, Norman
To stop the use of ardent spirits and to encourage the cultivation of corn, were two important steps, as the Governor thought.
From The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812 by Barce, Elmore
Again: The total disuse of ardent spirits is essential to the beneficial influence of the example of the temperate upon society at large.
From Select Temperance Tracts by American Tract Society
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 Miller, Hugh
