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
The infant may cry for its mother’s milk, and for nourishing food, but none was ever heard to cry for ardent spirits.
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 Robert Ezra Park
The excise law on ardent spirits distilled within the United States, had, from the time of its enactment by Congress in 1791, met with opposition from the inhabitants of the Western counties of Pennsylvania.
From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving
The younger and more ardent spirits, however, found it difficult to work in harmony with the older constitutional leaders.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various
