aqua vitae
Example Sentences
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As I understand by report I am much charged with starving the colony, I did always give every man his allowance faithfully, both of corn, oil, aqua vitae, etc., as was by the council proportioned.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
I wish I could see their stall and drink aqua vitae with them.
From Sea and Sardinia by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
At the tables were seated mostly men, taking coffee or vermouth or aqua vitae, all familiar and easy, without the modern self-consciousness.
From Sea and Sardinia by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
He continued the work of Honain, and advanced therapeutics by introducing more extensive use of chemical remedies, such as mercurial ointments, sulphuric acid, and aqua vitae.
From A History of Science — Volume 2 by Williams, Henry Smith
The first is, that it is an essential point to quench the coal of cork in aqua vitae, that the visible ink may become black with it.
