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 Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

This was lined with dirty shops, selling everything, from mouldy Turkish delight to poisonous-looking firewater called native wine.

From The Kangaroo Marines by Campbell, R. W.