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
He drunk no more ardent spirits till the ten years had expired, when he called on the merchant, and informed him that the conditions of the obligation had been, on his part, fulfilled.
From Select Temperance Tracts by American Tract Society
He lived no longer among ardent spirits who would brave everything and do anything for human perfectibility.
From Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle by Brailsford, Henry Noel
Before 1844 a co-operative society had already been formed and failed at Rochdale in Lancashire, yet some ardent spirits planned to form another.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various
I, John E. Long, secretary of Oregon, do hereby certify that the foregoing act on ardent spirits is truly and correctly revised by me.
From A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information by Gray, William Henry
