spiritous beverages. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Its flavour will vary according to the kind of spiritous liquor from which it is obtained. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy] Reference
By that I mean that spiritous or malt liquors are not sold. From Wordnik.com. [History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War, and Other Items of Interest] Reference
This liquor is more spiritous than that made from red grapes, and. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
The mode of judging by the taste of spiritous liquors is deceitful. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy] Reference
Ye Mahommedans, what of the spiritous liquors they will force upon you?. From Wordnik.com. [Love and Life Behind the Purdah] Reference
Hydrometer, legal, now in use for ascertaining the strength of spiritous liquors, 187. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy] Reference
The presence of lead may be detected in spiritous liquors, as stated on pages 70 and 86. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy] Reference
False strength, how given to wine and spiritous liquors, 19, 192 how given to vinegar, 220. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy] Reference
Here was involved a tax of fifty cents per gallon on all spiritous liquors brought into the State. From Wordnik.com. [The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952] Reference
They say the Spaniards receive them very friendly, and treat them with the best spiritous liquors. From Wordnik.com. [Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians.] Reference
Alcohol, quantity contained in different kinds of wine, 94 malt liquors, 126 spiritous liquors, 205. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy] Reference
We have, therefore, a ready check against the frauds of the dishonest dealers, in spiritous liquors. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy] Reference
Fond too as a Cree is of spiritous liquors he is not happy unless all his neighbours partake with him. From Wordnik.com. [The Journey to the Polar Sea] Reference
A bill to be entitled an act regarding the sale of spiritous liquors to slaves and for other purposes. From Wordnik.com. [House Journal--10th Sess. A Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the State of Florida, at Its Tenth Session, Begun and Held at the Capitol, in the City of Tallahassee, on Monday, November 26, 1860.] Reference
A bill to be entitled an act regulating the sale of spiritous liquors to slaves and for other purposes. From Wordnik.com. [House Journal--10th Sess. A Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the State of Florida, at Its Tenth Session, Begun and Held at the Capitol, in the City of Tallahassee, on Monday, November 26, 1860.] Reference
It also points out its import statistics, which show a far larger per capita consumption of spiritous liquors. From Wordnik.com. [A Son Of The Sun] Reference
Nevertheless, at eighteen Flora's neat spiritous air lay calm as a wimple over her keenly motivated little self. From Wordnik.com. [Star-Dust] Reference
Equipped like a country lass, and furnished with a bottle of spiritous liquors, he marched to the old miser's house. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II] Reference
But their character has been still more debased by the passion for spiritous liquors so assiduously fostered among them. From Wordnik.com. [The Journey to the Polar Sea] Reference
A bill to be entitled an act respecting the sale of vinous or spiritous liquors to slaves or free persons of color; and. From Wordnik.com. [House Journal--10th Sess. A Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the State of Florida, at Its Tenth Session, Begun and Held at the Capitol, in the City of Tallahassee, on Monday, November 26, 1860.] Reference
A bill respecting the sale of vinous or spiritous liquors to slaves or free persons of color in the city of Apalachicola. From Wordnik.com. [House Journal--10th Sess. A Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the State of Florida, at Its Tenth Session, Begun and Held at the Capitol, in the City of Tallahassee, on Monday, November 26, 1860.] Reference
I like that he seems to have kept a consistent lineup the past week or so, and that he's gotten more spiritous, it seems. From Wordnik.com. [Athletics Nation] Reference
The Committee on Corporations, to whom reference of a bill to be entitled an act respecting the sale of vinous and spiritous. From Wordnik.com. [House Journal--10th Sess. A Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the State of Florida, at Its Tenth Session, Begun and Held at the Capitol, in the City of Tallahassee, on Monday, November 26, 1860.] Reference
If the process be continued, the distilled product becomes milky, scarcely spiritous to the smell, and of an acidulous taste. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy] Reference
An act respecting the sale of vinous or spiritous liquors to slaves or free persons of color in the city of Apalachicola and Fernandina. From Wordnik.com. [House Journal--10th Sess. A Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the State of Florida, at Its Tenth Session, Begun and Held at the Capitol, in the City of Tallahassee, on Monday, November 26, 1860.] Reference
Also, a bill to be entitled an act to prevent the unnecessary consumption of grain by distillers and manufacturers of spiritous liquors. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Senate of the State of Georgia, at the Annual Session of the General Assembly, Begun and Held in Milledgeville, the Seatof [sic] Government, in 1862] Reference
An act respecting the sale of vinous or spiritous liquors to slaves or free persons of color in the cities of Apalachicola and Fernandina. From Wordnik.com. [House Journal--10th Sess. A Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the State of Florida, at Its Tenth Session, Begun and Held at the Capitol, in the City of Tallahassee, on Monday, November 26, 1860.] Reference
Another method of fining spiritous liquors, consists in adding to it, first, a solution of sub-acetate of lead, and then a solution of alum. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy] Reference
Others, however, are highly deleterious; and to this class belong the adulterations of beer, wines, spiritous liquors, pickles, salad oil, and many others. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy] Reference
The ode, as it is the eldest kind of poetry, so it is more spiritous, and more remote from prose, than any other, in sense, sound, expression, and conduct. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2] Reference
Dad has drank a good deal of spiritous and malt liquors in his time, but I don't think he ever indulged much in champagne at three or four dollars a bottle at home. From Wordnik.com. [Peck's Bad Boy Abroad Being a Humorous Description of the Bad Boy and His Dad in Their Journeys Through Foreign Lands - 1904] Reference
Adn naow, foar joor spit… spurp… spiritous… SOLE’s plehzhurr, ai prezents. From Wordnik.com. [The waiting line - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
Conan watched his host through a spiritous haze. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Warlord]
25° and boil at 83°, and has a spiritous smell, resembling that of camphor. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Fumy, spiritous mists inhabit this place. From Wordnik.com. [University Diaries] Reference
But more refined, more spiritous and pure, 475. From Wordnik.com. [Paradise Lost: The Fifth Book] Reference
479: Of spiritous and fierie spume, till toucht. From Wordnik.com. [Paradise Lost (1667)] Reference
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