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
Ministers and christians, a few years since, were engaged in the use and sale of ardent spirits; but they were all wrong, and they now acknowledge their error.
From Thoughts on African Colonization by Garrison, William Lloyd
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
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
Fire′-stick, the implement used by many primitive peoples for obtaining fire by friction; Fire′stone, a kind of sandstone that bears a high degree of heat; Fire′-wa′ter, ardent spirits; Fire′wood, wood for burning.—n.pl.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
