Strong distilled liquor or brandy.
1 Note how aqua vitae absorbs into itself all the colours and smells of flowers.
2 We call it aqua vitae -the water of life.
3 Give me a baioccho for a glass of aqua vitae !
4 It's good aqua vitae , and the flask is honest.
5 He probably called his new liquor simple " aqua vitae . "
6 An entry lists "Eight bolls of malt to Friar John Cor wherewith to make aqua vitae " .
7 He drank a little aqua vitae .
8 All this I can do already, I can change juice to aqua vitae -the gold is just the next step, gold from iron.'
9 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.
10 Zuzana pulled the stopper from the crystal flask of Hungarian water -aquavitae, rosemary tops, and ambergris.
11 Juba took you the aqua vitæ ?
12 Thus among the Irish statutes one stumbles on an act of Queen Elizabeth's reign 'Against making of Aqua Vitæ . '
13 "Truly a potent aqua vitae , " he remarked, still with thoughtful melancholy.
14 John Buttercross, at the sign of the Bugle Horn, sells wine and aqua vitæ , and good lodgings to man and horse.
15 Other writers speak of black spice, galanga, aqua vitæ , Spanish wine, aniseeds and other things as being used for purposes of adulteration.
16 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.
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