strong drink
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Farmers, artisans, laborers, and even dockside toughs fought back with more demonstrations, hangings in effigy, and rounds of angry speeches fortified with strong drink and stronger language.
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The reform movement could appear intolerant and overbearing to outsiders, particularly in campaigns to enforce observance of the Christian Sabbath or to ban strong drink.
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There were movements to distribute the Bible, to build asylums, penitentiaries, and schools, to ban strong drink, to bring world peace, to purify diets, and to commune with the dead.
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"Again, if beholding overmuch intemperance in his flock, he exhorteth all men to abstain from strong drink, "He is said to be a killjoy, and inhuman; a very Stiggins whose mind is straitened.
From Time Magazine Archive
An extraordinary dominating concept of his own person had taken possession of him; and this concept of his youth and boldness, of his strength and courage, had exalted him like strong drink.
From Their Son; The Necklace by Zamacois, Eduardo
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