ardent spirits

In three weeks he had consumed all his stock of ardent spirits.

In 323 BC, he died from drinking too much ardent spirits at 32 years old.

Time enough for ardent spirits after you've all listened to my proposal and made up your minds about it."

No ardent spirits at all for you.

The ardent spirits hurt the cuts in my mouth, but did wonders when it hit my stomach.

No white man may sell or provide "ardent spirits or intoxicating liquors" to the Indians.

Here, he opposed not lighter beverages like beer and wine but "ardent spirits" - harder liquors.

Ardent spirits and poisons are convertible terms."

His personal preference: "Of all the remedies known to me, I should decidedly prefer ardent spirits.

Still, the pyrotechnic effect was enough to quell even the most ardent spirits, much less men whose units had already been drubbed and shattered.

Ardent spirits all.

Ardent spirits were medicinal.

"As you are aware, my lord, members of our sacred cohort are forbidden to quaff ardent spirits.

Ardent Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition.

He was a small man, and a withered one, burned inside and outside by ardent spirits and ardent sun.

He had drunk a fair amount of ardent spirits and his talent was extinct as a result, useless as a blown-out taper.

"Permit me," he continued, "to recount to you briefly how certain ardent spirits, starting on imaginary journeys, have penetrated the secrets of our satellite.

In 1844, the legislature passed a law banning the sale of ardent spirits, out of concern that the Native Americans would become hostile if intoxicated.

The members had to pledge to abstain "from all liquors of an intoxicating quality, whether ale, porter, wine or ardent spirits, except as medicine"

He followed this note with a strong plea that "In the name of Almighty God, send no more ardent spirits to this camp!"

His own windtalent had been totally extinguished by ardent spirits, as had most of his other mental faculties.

Ardent spirits (ethyl alcohol), in alchemy, are those liquors obtained after repeated distillations from fermented vegetables.

Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home, Coming Back (2009)

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober, where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage.

'Oh,' says I. 'So you're not against the sport o' cards then, just ardent spirits?'