hard drink

The fact is, the troops are utterly demoralized by hard work and hard drink, I grieve to say.

I think you could only get a hard drink by ordering something to eat and sitting down to your wine or beer at a table.

As a cooling and refreshing drink in warm weather; and as a restorative after hard drink, fatigue, &c.

He weighed it over in his mind for a long time, almost coming to a resolution in favour of hard drink.

Sez I, "If they wuz poor men would they have been kep', or if it wuzn't for the influence of men that like hard drink?"