Alcoholic beverage containing more than 20 percent alcohol.
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Examples for "spirits "
Examples for "spirits "
1 He said he always feels in good health & spirits in N.Y.
2 Apparently Rosalind had gone back to school in good health and spirits .
3 Setien told a pre-match news conference: We have arrived in good spirits .
4 Thus he braced our flagging spirits , speaking words of encouragement and hope.
5 Certainly Tory MPs at Westminster were in far better spirits last week.
1 The region's public health authorities were in favour of the liquor bans.
2 The social factor in the liquor traffic is its Gibraltar of defense.
3 Police confiscated firearms and liquor and will continue to monitor the area.
4 This results in private clubs whose main purpose is to serve liquor .
5 You are a physician; you know the vagaries of men in liquor .
1 First free booze , now free weed … never change LA, never change.
2 But enough booze , it doesn't really matter what you think anymore, right?
3 Find other ways other than food and booze to address your stress.
4 I'd need more booze to service the ship for the extra cycle.
5 No booze to help you sleep during those lonely nights, Casper said.
1 Not yet was I ready to tuck my arm in John Barleycorn 's .
2 Another result was that John Barleycorn was beginning to trip me up.
3 So it is with John Barleycorn 's realm where the White Logic reigns.
4 But, John Barleycorn , to the extent of six glasses, went with me.
5 It was a new, a totally different manifestation of John Barleycorn 's power.
1 They hunt seals in these parts, but mostly they smuggle hard liquor .
2 The rising tide of hard liquor in America was, however, inexorable.
3 She liked it, but said she didn't drink hard liquor , which surprised him.
4 And he'd sure as hell never handed me any hard liquor .
5 He's wary of an excess of hard liquor in case it makes him gabby.
1 At least half the trouble in the world comes from strong drink .
2 I am very fond of strong drink ; it has been my ruin.
3 He seems also to want to drown his sorrows in strong drink .
4 It couldn't get in when the strong drink blocked up the road.
5 He was discoursing on the relation of strong drink to the stomach.
1 But the UFO is like hard drink ; you always seem to drift back to it.
2 No one ever dies up on this hill, I am told, except of hard drink .
3 Your uncle has been made shameless with hard drink and has neglected his wife and children.
4 If he enjoys a good hard drink , this black whiskey stone gift set is quite sexy.
5 He is a handsome, blue-eyed man, with a face red from hard drink and cold winters.
6 He looked the worse for hard drink already, but of course I could not refuse him if he wanted it.
7 He weighed it over in his mind for a long time, almost coming to a resolution in favour of hard drink .
8 This pompous old weakling hated me boisterously; he said I was dedicated to hard drink , and when in that condition was perfectly incompatible.
9 Hence their frame, however robust by nature, wears out through hard drink , and goes the way of all flesh, rarely with grey hairs.
10 Michael is holed up in a Paris hotel room with some hard drink and a word processor, neither of which he handles with any conviction.
11 There was hard drinking everywhere about him; and he did not abstain.
12 Anders took to hard drinking from that day, and was soon far on the road to ruin.
13 An anarchic, last days of Rome madness had set in, the hotel bars sodden with hard drinking long into the night.
14 Sixty years had written their story of hard work at sea, and hard drinking on shore, on the veteran's grim and wrinkled face.
15 "It's all we can do, but I should feel considerably better if I could get a hard drink now," he said.
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