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
It has attacked the Sunday mails, assaulted Free Masonry, triumphed over the intemperate use of ardent spirits, and finally engaged in an onslaught upon the slavery of the South.
From History of American Abolitionism by Fontaine, F. G. de
Ministers and christians, a few years since, were engaged in the use and sale of ardent spirits; but they were all wrong, and they now acknowledge their error.
From Thoughts on African Colonization by Garrison, William Lloyd
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
Mother," he said in a feeble tone, "God bless you for having taught me to avoid ardent spirits.
From Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character by Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard)
