firewater
Example Sentences
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Four polite Englishmen in their middle 20s, feigning like firewater drunks in a Eugene O'Neill play: it's exactly the stuff that makes their detractors groan.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 15, 2012
The headiest intoxicant of that decade was youth, the perennial firewater of the U.S. imagination and temperament.
From Time Magazine Archive
They thirsted for the raw firewater of campaign oratory.
From Time Magazine Archive
Make a circle p. 239round the camp-fire and we shall drink the firewater of the Palefaces and smoke the pipe of peace.”
From Danger! and Other Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
This was lined with dirty shops, selling everything, from mouldy Turkish delight to poisonous-looking firewater called native wine.
From The Kangaroo Marines by R. W. Campbell
