strong waters

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Helms alone does not drink strong waters of any kind.

From Time Magazine Archive

Perhaps only through such filters as Alexander platz will Joyce's strong waters be made potable to the public.

From Time Magazine Archive

His ingratitude, his treachery, his petty pilfering, his resistence of a love which the strong waters of death could not extinguish.

From Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. by Meyer, F. B. (Frederick Brotherton)

Of the strong waters Lancelot and I would have none, for in those days I never touched them, nor did Lancelot.

From Marjorie by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)

In the hall, within, a number of gentlemen, more or less mud-bespattered, regaled themselves with cheerful conversation, with strong waters of unexceptionable quality, and with their host, Mr. Cathcart's very excellent cigars.

From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Malet, Lucas