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 lived no longer among ardent spirits who would brave everything and do anything for human perfectibility.
From Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle by Brailsford, Henry Noel
As a beverage they do not use ardent spirits, and seem to have no taste or desire for the article, though they drink the ordinary claret—rarely anything stronger.
From Due South or Cuba Past and Present by Ballou, Maturin Murray
Though never a strict abstainer, I have wrought as an operative mason for whole twelvemonths together, in which I did not consume half-a-dozen glasses of ardent spirits, or partake of half-a-dozen draughts of fermented liquor.
From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Miller, Hugh
To stop the use of ardent spirits and to encourage the cultivation of corn, were two important steps, as the Governor thought.
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
