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
Physicians were called upon to sign a pledge not to prescribe ardent spirits when any other substitute could be found, and in no case without a personal examination of the patient.
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra
Let us next attend to the chronic effects of ardent spirits upon the body and mind.
From Select Temperance Tracts by American Tract Society
He frequently harangued his followers in my presence, and the evils attendant upon war and the use of ardent spirits was his constant theme.
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
