ardent spirits
Example Sentences
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Well, check, check and check; Alison’s Aged Egg Nog is a nothing if not heavy on the ardent spirits!
From Salon
By contrast, hard liquor was prohibited in some American territory even before the country formed: in 1733, James Oglethorpe, the founding governor of the British province of Georgia, banned “the importation of ardent spirits.”
From The New Yorker
They go back to the time when they both landed at Calcutta, young and ardent spirits, eager for adventure, and urged by a bold ambition to win distinction.
From Project Gutenberg
He was a nauseous creature, full of animal and ardent spirits, redolent of rum, and radiant of strange and most objectionable oaths.
From Project Gutenberg
You, who had no experience of the temptations to which your weaker brethren are liable, who are already addicted to the temperate and daily use of ardent spirits, advised me never to sign a pledge.
From Project Gutenberg
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