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Example sentences for "ardent spirits"

  • DEAR SIR,--The undersigned would take this occasion to inform you that there have been of late in this place some few cases of intoxication from the effects of ardent spirits.

  • I searched every suspicious place thoroughly, aided by the citizens, but found no ardent spirits or wine in the colony.

  • To produce ( as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling low wines or ardent spirits (whisky, rum, etc.

  • Fire water, ardent spirits; -- so called by the American Indians.

  • Defn: A kind of ardent spirits used in southern Europe and the East, distilled from grape juice, grain, etc.

  • They migrate from place to place, as the season varies, plant very little, and are addicted to the use of ardent spirits.

  • About the middle of the 17th century, they were reduced to a few villages near Quebec, who were then said to be "wasted, and wasting away under the effects of ardent spirits.

  • Ardent spirits or whiskey from fecula or starchy materials.

  • RUM, is a variety of ardent spirits, distilled in the West Indies, from the fermented skimmings of the sugar teaches, mixed with molasses, and diluted with water to the proper degree.

  • Industry and prudence had been frequently enjoined, and, above all things, an abhorrence of ardent spirits.

  • The want of all variety in their lives, of all intellectual amusement, is one cause of their passion for gambling and for ardent spirits.

  • The chiefs and warriors of the different tribes are perfectly aware of the monstrous evils introduced by the use of ardent spirits.

  • Any one who will take the trouble to read the advertisements in the Liberia Herald will discover that ardent spirits form a prominent item in the list of articles offered for sale.

  • Ministers and christians, a few years since, were engaged in the use and sale of ardent spirits; but they were all wrong, and they now acknowledge their error.

  • I do not place the use of tobacco in the same scale with that of ardent spirits.

  • Pursuing this principle, you have condemned the use of ardent spirits, unless sickness demands their application as a medicine.

  • A few reasons have already been given, why smoking tends strongly to favor the introduction of ardent spirits.

  • Did gentlemen consider, when they agreed to a high duty on ardent spirits, that it would be a pretext for increasing the duties on a necessary of life.

  • If we are to reason and act as moralists on this point, I am certain it is the wish of every member to prevent the use of ardent spirits altogether, for their influence on the morals of the people is of the most pernicious kind.

  • I would concur in any measure calculated to exterminate the poison covered under the form of ardent spirits, from our country; but it should be without violence.

  • The people whom he governed, have either entirely melted away before the influence of war and the use of ardent spirits, or greatly reduced in numbers, have removed far beyond the Mississippi.

  • I am satisfied that more than two-thirds of the disasters that occur on board these steamboats, are attributable to this free use of ardent spirits.

  • Justice Grier said: "It is not necessary to array the appalling statistics of misery, pauperism and crime which have their origin in the use and abuse of ardent spirits.

  • And again: "The statistics of every state show a greater amount of crime and misery attributable to the use of ardent spirits obtained at these liquor saloons than to any other source.

  • Justice Grier said: "It is not necessary to array the appalling statistics of misery, pauperism, and crime that have their origin in the use and abuse of ardent spirits.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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