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
Let us next attend to the chronic effects of ardent spirits upon the body and mind.
From Select Temperance Tracts by American Tract Society
As a beverage they do not use ardent spirits, and seem to have no taste or desire for the article, though they drink the ordinary claret—rarely anything stronger.
From Due South or Cuba Past and Present by Ballou, Maturin Murray
The excise law on ardent spirits distilled within the United States, had, from the time of its enactment by Congress in 1791, met with opposition from the inhabitants of the Western counties of Pennsylvania.
From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Irving, Washington
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 Maclean, Norman
