Note how aqua vitae absorbs into itself all the colours and smells of flowers.

We call it aqua vitae -the water of life.

Give me a baioccho for a glass of aqua vitae!

It's good aqua vitae, and the flask is honest.

He probably called his new liquor simple " aqua vitae."

An entry lists "Eight bolls of malt to Friar John Cor wherewith to make aqua vitae".

He drank a little aqua vitae.

All this I can do already, I can change juice to aqua vitae -the gold is just the next step, gold from iron.'

A paste of emery mixed with aqua vitae, or iron filings with vinegar, or ashes of walnut leaves, or ashes of straw very finely powdered.

Zuzana pulled the stopper from the crystal flask of Hungarian water -aquavitae, rosemary tops, and ambergris.

Juba took you the aqua vitæ?

Thus among the Irish statutes one stumbles on an act of Queen Elizabeth's reign 'Against making of Aqua Vitæ.'

"Truly a potent aqua vitae," he remarked, still with thoughtful melancholy.

John Buttercross, at the sign of the Bugle Horn, sells wine and aqua vitæ, and good lodgings to man and horse.

Other writers speak of black spice, galanga, aqua vitæ, Spanish wine, aniseeds and other things as being used for purposes of adulteration.

Our drink was water mixed with aqua vitæ instead of brandy; and, for a treat, mead instead of wine; which, however, they have excellent good.