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
They thirsted for the raw firewater of campaign oratory.
From Time Magazine Archive
The headiest intoxicant of that decade was youth, the perennial firewater of the U.S. imagination and temperament.
From Time Magazine Archive
At this, the Raven who was hot to have the treasure of firewater an' whose ears rang with cur'osity to hear the end of the Story-that-never-ends saw that he must kill the Giant.
From Wolfville Nights by Alfred Henry Lewis
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
