Close a room tightly and have a brasier of brass or iron with fire in it and sprinkle on it two pints of aqua vitae, a little at a time, so that it may be converted into smoke.
Then give it [a coat] of aqua vitae in which you have dissolved arsenic or [corrosive] sublimate, 2 or 3 times.
Bradford mentions "aqua vitae" as a constituent of their lunch on the exploring party of November 15.
About the beginning of the fifteenth century we meet with the first mention of the use of Usquebagh, or Aqua Vitae, in our Annals.
But Ice will swim in water of what thinness soever; and though it sink in oyl, will float in spirits of Wine or Aqua vitae.
From whence ariseth an Aqua vitae or spirit, which the volatile salt of the same Urine will congeal; and finding an earthy concurrence, strike into a lapideous substance.
The first is, that it is an essential point to quench the coal of cork in aqua vitae, that the visible ink may become black with it.
Burn cork, and quench it in aqua vitae, then dissolve it in a sufficient quantity of water, wherein you shall have melted a little gumm arabick, in order to make an ink as black as common ink.
It must be remembered he saw all these fearful things at night--but without the help, in Powhatan's camp, of sack or aqua vitae.
The ration for each man was twelve bushels of cereal (oatmeal or peas), one gallon of aqua vitae, two gallons of vinegar, one of oil.
That was all they wanted: their continual allowance of aqua vitae.
You spent your whole life at the Risveglio sitting, waiting, and going block-cold: unless you were content to drink aqua vitae, like those in there.
The Tsar of Muscovy drinks me down a quartern of aqua vitae at a gulp,--I've seen him do it.
I would give all the pohickory that was ever brewed by heathen for a toss of aqua vitae!
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aqua vitae" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
