This would be misleading, did we not take into consideration how much strong drink is made to yield to the revenue.
It is truly sad to contemplate the stream of talent which was polluted at this time by unrestrained indulgence in strong drink.
The consumption of strong drink at public entertainments was something prodigious in the fifteenth century.
They were advised to stay and give up strong drink.
Truly, "Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Overcome by strong drink; intoxicated by, or as by, spirituous liquor; inebriated.
They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Give me a sober population, not wasting their earnings in strong drink, and I will know where to get my revenue.
As for the plea or purpose for which the intoxicating beverage was to be used on this occasion "for the stomach's sake," it is the same that dram-drinkers and drunkards have always had recourse to to justify the use of strong drink.
If any be drunk, he shall drink no more wine or strong drink in a twelvemonth after.
Sidenote: Tavern Regulations] It was a uniform custom in the English colonies to make provision for the care of strangers and to regulate by law the taverns and the sale of strong drink.
Sidenote: Captain Underhill Makes Trouble] In the first settlement of New England the laws and regulations as to the sale of strong drink and as to restraint in indulgence were very rigid, but afterwards much relaxed.
Or if this term, and the state it connotes, be unduly aggressive, let me say by an intemperate use of strong drink.
It is one thing to insist upon the evils that are inseparable from an intemperate indulgence in strong drink, it is quite another thing to assert that it is evil, and evil only, to touch it at all.
Think again for a moment about the effects on society as a whole of the intemperate use of strong drink.
Strong drink was as commonly used by the Puritans as by the Churchmen in Virginia and peach-brandy would have been as acceptable but it was easier to produce cider, and rum from the West Indies could be had with little trouble.
Brandy-making, according to Kalm, was simplicity itself and it is not to be wondered that in those days of strong drink peach-brandy was popular.
After the year 1800 we read less about peaches as food for hogs and less about peach-products for assuaging the thirst for strong drink.
The next three Woes are upon different aggravations of that moral perversity which the prophet has already traced to strong drink.
A horror of strong drink has in every age possessed those who from their position as magistrates or prophets have been able to follow for any distance the drifts of social life.
The appetite of hell itself has to be enlarged to suffice for the consumption of the spoils of strong drink.
Women, being more excitable than men, are more easily affected by strong drink, and hence among the ancient Romans females abstained from wine.
To them then will apply the principles given above in reference to strong drink.
We were asked to give up our sins, we were entreated almost with tears to give up strong drink, and come to Jesus.
His hatred of strong drink, begun so many years ago when he gave up the great fortune that was made from beer, persists to-day with undiminished force.
The number, misery, and hopeless condition of the slaves of strong drink, of both sexes, have been already dealt with at considerable length.
Many of our social evils, which overshadow the land like so many upas trees, would dwindle away and die if they were not constantly watered with strong drink.
How many are there who are, more or less, under the dominion of strong drink?
The revival of business has been attested on all hands, notably by the barometer of strong drink.
The total abandonment of an habitual use of animal food is attended with all the perplexing, uncomfortable, and distressing difficulties that follow the giving up of an habitual use of strong drink.
How could a person be wise who allows himself to be deceived and hoodwinked concerning as good a thing as wine or strong drink?
So in this passage, 'strong drink is raging,' because so many church-members and ministers refuse to preach the real truth to the people on the subject of strong drink.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging; and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
The committee asked for the opinion of the jail officers in nearly every county in the State as to the proportion of commitments due, either directly or indirectly, to strong drink.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strong drink" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
