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Example sentences for "liquor"

Lexicographically close words:
liquidation; liquide; liquidity; liquids; liquified; liquored; liquorice; liquoring; liquorish; liquors
  1. We wished that a similar enactment might be passed in England, for there many people might habitually be seen much the worse for liquor on Sunday evenings, to the great annoyance of those returning from their various places of worship.

  2. Legislative Temperance Movement for the abolition of the Liquor Traffic, and who, at a later date, was said to be the wittiest member of the House of Commons.

  3. For self protection the proprietors and contractors of the camps are compelled to watch that no liquor enters; with its introduction trouble begins and a reduced output of logs is the result.

  4. A stream of coin passed over the bar and a tide of liquor came from the other side.

  5. It was to the interest of the liquor men that the town be run as wide open as possible, and the business interests as represented by the liquor sellers were far from the Puritan mould.

  6. He was crazed with liquor and his powerful frame shook with the excitement of the contest.

  7. Often he would appear in his office the worse for liquor and dispense justice to the petty offenders.

  8. Yes; he kept a liquor saloon, and patronized his own bar too much for his own good.

  9. Trimble is indulging in liquor more than ever, and I don't see how he can stand it unless he has a castiron constitution.

  10. Two miners were leaning against the front of the wooden shanty used for the sale of liquor when Philip appeared.

  11. He said his papa," mimicked Oscar, "didn't want him to go into a liquor saloon.

  12. Papa didn't want me to go into a liquor saloon.

  13. The affray took place about half a mile from the place of worship, near some wagons loaded with liquor and provisions.

  14. All the stores in those days kept liquor to sell and had a corner for drinking.

  15. The Frenchmen's liquor is good, and they are jolly cocks, and we never wish for better companions.

  16. I've got a little store of liquor of my own, and I like to share it with honest fellows like you, Weatherhelm," he said.

  17. The fate of most is to go on pouring water on the lees, that people at last come to suspect they never got honest liquor from the tap at all.

  18. So you see I am ending my days under the flag that fascinated my first ambition: my grief is, my dear Blackwood, that you have not had the first of the liquor and not the lees of the cask.

  19. The planets are licensed only to retail liquor to be drunk on the premises.

  20. Gladness and hurried draughts of liquor had just blurred the sharp outlines of his lighter ideas with a thin haze or fog.

  21. Nothing anywhere; not a piece of fruit, no wine, not so much as a drop of liquor wherewith to quench the intolerable thirst that tormented her.

  22. These boxes being removable cannot fit tightly against the liquor guides, and the liquor is apt to escape.

  23. The basket may be divided into compartments and the liquor guided into each.

  24. You go to your bed every night at eleven o'clock, after a couple of glasses of beer, and last night you went and took more liquor than was good for you, long after you ought to have been asleep; no wonder you had a lot of funny dreams.

  25. A dish of their meat was a good mouthful, and a barrel of their liquor a reasonable draught.

  26. This liquor tasted like a small cider, and was not unpleasant.

  27. The inner iron gate has just closed, and two sturdy constables have dragged into the corridor a man, or what liquor has left of a man, and left him prostrate and apparently insensible on the floor.

  28. A man as takes his liquor as Tom does ain't fit company for my house.

  29. But in general both city and county politics, as in most parts of the United States, were seemingly dominated by the liquor interests.

  30. While at the agency one time he told us the following story: A German brought a wagon load of liquor on to the reservation and began selling to the Indians.

  31. But it was clear that the vote of the city, combined with that of the county, would come back with greater strength in another election, and some of the more far-seeing liquor dealers began arrangements to enter other business.

  32. The philanthropist is somewhat pained indeed to observe the large amount of attention paid to the liquor business in its various forms.

  33. The watchmen saw only the great yellow round tanks of the liquor pure as imported, and pushed in behind the blind.

  34. If you force perry, cut your isinglass with cyder or stale beer, for no liquor will force its own body.

  35. Then strain the liquor from the fruit, and press the fruit very dry, mixing the pressings with the rest of the liquor, and put all together into a cask, and ferment it in the following manner.

  36. Few people know the nature of fermentation, without which no vinous spirit can be produced; nor any liquor be rendered fine and potible.

  37. Observe when it runs low, to look to the cock, lest any of the oily part should come, which will be all on the top, and will not run out till after the good liquor is drawn off.

  38. Infuse them over a slow fire for three hours; strain the liquor from the wood, and keep it boiling.

  39. But I can assure them, the more any liquor is rack'd, the more it is weaken'd.

  40. Note, When you take out the oil and bottom, your cask must be well fired, otherwise it will spoil all the liquor that shall be afterwards put into it.

  41. A pint of this liquor will make a pipe the colour of port wine.

  42. When burnt out, bung the cask close and roll it well about three or four times a day for two days; then let it stand seven or eight days, and this liquor will be so strong as to affect your eyes by looking at it.

  43. If fresh meat is used for this dish the liquor may be used for soup, or the bones may be put back when removed from the meat and boiled without the lid very quickly for an hour.

  44. A great deal of this potash comes out in the water during the process of cooking; if this liquor is used as a foundation for soup, we utilize this.

  45. Strain away the liquor from a bottle of oysters; put it into a saucepan, and when it boils put in the oysters and cook for five minutes; let them get cold in the liquor.

  46. Rub the tomatoes through a sieve; mix with half a pint of the liquor in which the fish was cooked.

  47. They should not be broken, but quite soft, and all the liquor absorbed.

  48. Time--One Hour The liquor in which poultry or a rabbit has been boiled is the best for this soup.

  49. Butter or Beef Dripping * 2 quarts of Water or Pot Liquor * Crusts of Bread * Salt and Pepper--2d.

  50. Put back the bones and boil the liquor quickly without the lid for half an hour, then strain off.

  51. The liquor can then be served as a soup with part of the vegetables and some sippets of toast.

  52. Take half a pint of the liquor in which the artichokes were boiled, and make a sauce; dish them and pour this over.

  53. Take it up and keep hot, strain the liquor in which it has been cooked; take about one pint and make into a brown sauce with the butter and flour.

  54. Boil steadily for eight or nine hours; the liquor should then be reduced to one quart.

  55. The liquor in which the tongues were boiled may be used for this if it is not too salt.

  56. The liquor being brought, and several horns of it discussed, Donald and his new friend got as thick as "ben' leather.

  57. Finding it wholly impossible, however, to make this sentiment understood, Donald was compelled to content himself with the liquor which had been brought him.

  58. The sentinel took the bottle and raised it to his lips; he drank, and swore the liquor was excellent.

  59. He had never even heard of whisky in his life, and was therefore greatly at a loss to understand what sort of liquor his friend meant.

  60. In my state of clairvoyance I perceived that he was a better man, than I, and that his lapses proceeded from a love of liquor and the transcendent sense of good-fellowship that liquor brings.

  61. We had a national philosophy that measured prosperity in dollars and cents, included in this measurement the profits of liquor dealers who were responsible for most of our idiots.

  62. He usually disappeared in the afternoon, and returned at night as drunk as liquor could make him.

  63. The next moment the fumes of the liquor floated back insidiously over his brain; and the veteran, returning to his customary remedy, paced the passage in zigzag as usual, and kept watch on the deck of an imaginary ship.

  64. The liquor was drunk with delight by the Ostjak men and women, but Godfrey could not touch it, for some of the fish had already been boiled in the water, which the Ostjaks had not thought it necessary to change.

  65. He poured out a generous drink of the liquor and handed it to Moran, but the agent could not hold it in his swollen fingers.

  66. But the man lingered, while Moran, as lightly as a cat, despite his great bulk and the liquor he carried, sprang to the nearest window.

  67. Before she did know, the odor of liquor on his breath repelled her.


  68. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "liquor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alcohol; analgesic; anodyne; barb; beverage; blood; blue; booze; bottle; brew; codeine; depressant; drink; fluid; frosted; grog; heroin; hop; horse; hydraulics; hypnotic; juice; junk; laudanum; liquid; liquor; lush; milk; morphine; narcotic; opiate; opium; paregoric; pop; potable; potation; rainbow; rum; schnapps; shake; shit; sleeper; smack; soda; soporific; souse; spirit; spirits; swig; swill; tar; tonic; water; whey; yellow