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 undersigned, physicians of Cincinnati, feel it their duty to express their decided opinion in opposition to the habitual, as well as occasional use of ardent spirits.
From Select Temperance Tracts by American Tract Society
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
He drank no ardent spirits, nor much coffee and tea; he used very little tobacco, and he ate in great moderation.
From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
I searched every suspicious place thoroughly, aided by the citizens, but found no ardent spirits or wine in the colony.
From A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information by Gray, William Henry
