alcoholic liquor
Example Sentences
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Buddhism forbids killing, stealing, adultery, lying, use of alcoholic liquor.
From Time Magazine Archive
That year all the children in his class at the parish church pledged themselves to drink no alcoholic liquor before their majority.
From Time Magazine Archive
The juice is sensibly acid, and is capable of being, by fermentation, converted into vinegar, and, mixed with water or the dregs of beer, yields, by distillation, an alcoholic liquor.
From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)
I gave them a splendid lunch, but of course, as in previous years, without a drop of alcoholic liquor.
From The Schoolmaster by Garnett, Constance
Among distillers, a certain degree of strength in alcoholic liquor, as formerly ascertained by the floating or sinking of glass globules of different specific gravities thrown into it; now ascertained by more accurate meters.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
