How To Use Moonshine In A Sentence

  • There would not be enough for a huge supply of moonshine that winter.
  • The piece features an excerpt from All Moonshine, a captivating, expressive work exploring metamorphosis that Yoshioka brought to Montreal in 2000.
  • They just built their stills and made up moonshine or any other liquor that they could.
  • In Tennessee caves, moonshine whiskey production was the most prevalent of this type of industrial activity, although other examples also existed.
  • The man, not seeing the still figure on the sofa, stole towards the farther door revealed in the cool moonshine. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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  • He regarded her plans as romantic moonshine.
  • Half of What We Know," featuring her breathy vocal over a weepy violin and persistent banjo, opens with "Your lonesomeness I know," words inspired by the song "Moonshiner. Michael Bialas: Exploring Some Strange Country With Crooked Still, Aoife O'Donovan
  • But even still, moonshine was easier to make, move, and afford than wine.
  • What follows this rescue is a subplot involving moonshiners while the "captor" returns to claim The Lady. GreenCine Daily: New Zealand Dispatch.
  • Their third encounter was a bitter memory for her; no doubt he didn't remember it at all -- he was staggering drunk on moonshine. ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
  • (The yeoman farmers hit the moonshine, whereas caffeine, a stimulant, is the drug for our age.) On the Playing Fields of Suburbia
  • An accomplished master of the month-long bender, his genteel appearance belies his taste for corn liquor and high proof moonshine.
  • There're moonshiners, bootleggers, methamphetamine manufacturers... they're not associated with each other. TISHOMINGO BLUES
  • Those times were becoming more frequent as Cyrus drank more… moonshine mostly, bourbon when he could get it.
  • There is, of course, the town drunk, Otis, who acquires bootleg liquor from various moonshiners in that dry county on a regular basis and regularly celebrates the anniversary of his first drink.
  • They watered down the moonshine
  • The proprietor, a sloe-eyed mestizo named Julio, set them up with local nut liqueurs and moonshine pinga.
  • When we got older we sat around and drank rum or moonshine out of coke bottles.
  • Note 126: Locally distilled liquor, called moonshine by the twentieth century, was made with molasses, hops, and oats boiled in a pot from which a coiling tube extended; the coil was passed through cold water, causing the vapors from the boiling mixture to condense. Gutenber-e Help Page
  • It was pure alcohol, more deadly than moonshine, and with none of the distiller's art applied to its flavour.
  • The Fishers are a coon-hunting, catfishing, moonshine-cooking tribe. Way Station
  • Vodka is not the drink of choice here; instead, Bulgaria has its own homemade moonshine, called rakia, produced by every grandpa in the country in backyard distillers. 12-19-06 Bulgaria and alcohol, part one
  • But I think it is moonshine to say that the photos were released out of a desire to show how his medical care is going.
  • This first feature filmed in Irish follows the tale of an aging producer of poitin (the Irish equivalent of moonshine) and the two young ruffians who rob him.
  • Elspat, disdaining to continue the objurgation, or perhaps feeling her grief likely to overmaster her power of expressing her resentment, had left the hut, and was walking forth in the bright moonshine. Chronicles of the Canongate
  • None of them had eaten anything all day so, as usual they were trying to fill their stomachs with beer and moonshine.
  • folks around here drink moonshine
  • A couple of friends brought some moonshine over.
  • Its claim to fame is chicha, a homemade corn drink akin to moonshine, and the chicherria is a cavernous adobe barn with chickens and roosters strutting freely among the tables.
  • The road ends at Upper Killeyan, but it is worth walking the last mile to the coast, once the favourite haunt of smugglers and moonshiners.
  • Why is this moonshine in a book that asks itself to be taken seriously on the solar system?
  • That every puir fellow as has no gret brains in his head will be left to his superstition, an 'his ignorance to fulfil the lusts o' his flesh; while the few that are geniuses, or fancy themselves sae, are to ha 'the monopoly o' this private still o 'philosophy -- these carbonari, illuminati, vehmgericht, samothracian mysteries o' bottled moonshine. An 'when that comes to pass, I'll just gang back to my schule and my catechism, and begin again wi' 'who was born o' the Virgin Mary, suffered oonder Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
  • Later I discovered he had been a bootlegger and moonshiner during prohibition and had gone to live on the mountain to flee a gang who thought he owed them money.
  • It was far better stuff than Bob's moonshine, so he took another. METAPLANETARY
  • While having a shot of whiskey, they talk about their moonshine operation.
  • `I'll take the love, but I ain't no old lady, and I don't need no moonshiner looking after me. ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
  • As Morison remarks, the story is pure moonshine.
  • At night, after I had eaten a cold pullet, I walked by brave moonshine, with three or four armed men to guard me, to Redriffe, it being a joy to my heart to think of the condition that I am now in, that people should of themselves provide this for me, unspoke to. Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete
  • Father Floyd guzzled moonshine, caroused a bit and ran a sawmill that provided hard wages while relieving him of a few fingers. "Nashville Chrome," a novel by Rick Bass, about the Browns
  • They relish telling stories about moonshiners, smugglers, and contraband runners who successfully fool and evade federal agents.
  • Strings of spittle hanging from pointed teeth to lower lip reflected moonshine as the cadaverous head arched skywards.
  • During Prohibition, John remembered, ‘most moonshiners were respectable people.’
  • Also in Bali I sampled some Arak, which is Balinese moonshine. Gizmodo
  • It is not without a certain aptness, then, that the Southerner's chosen drink is called moonshine.
  • Today's moonshiners are big time criminals who use night-vision goggles, radio scanners and walkie-talkies and illegal immigrant workers to stay ahead.
  • He pardoned them - he pardoned them on decades-old charges related to selling moonshine.
  • At stops in Vicksburg, Greenville or Stovepipe Bend, Sam serves as a different kind of floorwalker, trying to keep order among the raucous, 500-plus crowds smelling of sweat and Sen-Sen and armed with knives or moonshine or both. An Adventure Tale Haunted by Loss
  • We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.
  • Hooper's claims are moonshine.
  • Ruth orders four rounds of quadruple ryes, Faulkner orders four rounds of moonshine.
  • They were beautiful, and I probably should have bought one, but I wanted to learn, and I wanted it to be, for lack of a better word, moonshiney. CHASING the WHITE DOG
  • He bought his liquor wholesale from a moonshiner who worked in the greenhouse and had a still in one of the back rooms. METAPLANETARY
  • The business that was revealed at the Helms store was a tangly, multifaceted thing, and although the Helms brothers would sell supplies to each of the moonshining groups that showed up at the store, it would be impossible to prove that those moonshiners were all involved in a conspiracy together. CHASING the WHITE DOG
  • My daddy's been somethin' of a farmer and a moonshiner most of his life. WEB OF DREAMS
  • I wish we were a couple o 'bloomin' poets and just talked about roses and moonshine, but we're human. Main Street
  • The age-old secrets of distilling witblits, a traditional local moonshine will be revealed.
  • During the Civil War excise taxes were imposed and this drove the making of corn whiskey underground, which eventually led to the production of moonshine.
  • I use perennial alpine pinks, biennial sweet William and self-sowing annual candytuft to edge beds of Jupiter's-beard and June-blooming yarrows such as pale yellow ‘Taygetea’ and ‘Moonshine’.
  • At least Morton would never fall into that trap ... But it was all moonshine.
  • Before going at the piles of splintered remains with wooden mallets, Mick and Mairtin get juiced on a potent Irish moonshine called poteen and fiddle with the unearthed bits. Dallas Observer | Complete Issue
  • He and his friend Willie Brown would often sit on tombstones, writing ominous melodies and drinking moonshine.
  • Someone had apparently set up a still that produced a potent form of moonshine and a yeasty homemade beer.
  • Most moonshine is drunk by African-Americans in unlicensed bars called nip joints or shot houses. CHASING the WHITE DOG
  • Suspicion hath it that in this neighborhood, in a still wilder and more secluded spot, there was not long ago another kind of "cratur," not at all extinct, but alive with all the fiery headiness of moonshine "old corn" whiskey. History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912
  • This image evolved over the decades, and the moonshiner became fixed as a corncob-pipe-smoking craftsman filling stoneware jugs with a clear and tasty elixir while keeping an eye out for pesky revenuers. Hipster Moonshine
  • It got the name ‘moonshine’ during Prohibition after the light by which mash men tended their illegal stills.
  • Within weeks of taking office, he ordered police to remove the tens of thousands of illegal money-changing kiosks that were also notorious for selling counterfeit goods and dangerous, home-brewed moonshine.
  • The next post down is the last three words (or one word thrice?) on moonshine enforcement in Fairfax, VA.
  • I was about to treat myself to a sip of Lewis' finest moonshine when the door opened and Jimmy entered followed by James and Jesse.
  • He pulled back his shirt to show TB another flask of rotgut moonshine stuck under the string that held up his trousers. METAPLANETARY
  • There is, of course, the town drunk, Otis, who acquires bootleg liquor from various moonshiners in that dry county on a regular basis and regularly celebrates the anniversary of his first drink.
  • Irish farmers hid their stills and kept on making moonshine.
  • It’s called a bootlegger’s turn, staple of TV shows, Tennessee moonshiner’s gift to the world. Venom
  • Ruth orders four rounds of quadruple ryes, Faulkner orders four rounds of moonshine.
  • I caught a bit of this on Radio 4 yesterday: stuff I had never known about the distilling of illicit liquor in Scotland and Ireland, moonshine and poteen.
  • I use perennial alpine pinks, biennial sweet William and self-sowing annual candytuft to edge beds of Jupiter's-beard and June-blooming yarrows such as pale yellow ‘Taygetea’ and ‘Moonshine’.
  • Around this tiny flicker, a maelstrom of black magicks roiled, drawing sustenance from this sweet flame just as the flames of darkfire dancing on Vira’ni’s skin drew energies from the firelight and moonshine. Wit'ch Storm
  • Of course they spoke of their brew as if it were a medicinal cure-all when in reality they produced highly refined and greatly prized moonshine.
  • The current owner often tells tales of her mother, who opened the bar, making her own moonshine and beer.
  • Fish wrapped in banana leaves, dried beans, lots of soups, rice, a native green called callaloo, rum, and a devastating moonshine concocted from fermented corn and sugarcane juice, which Fry gives a recipe for. PopMatters
  • People just thought I was drinking moonshine; I never let them see what was in the flask.
  • Such moonshine, which is commonly purchased in the countryside across the Baltic states, is much less expensive than anything sold in Latvian stores.
  • Every one of his followers started up at the command, and mingled as they were among their late allies, prepared too for such a surprisal, each had, in an instant, his next neighbour by the collar, while his right hand brandished a broad dagger that glimmered against lamplight and moonshine. Quentin Durward
  • Whenever you speak of water, treat it as fire -- of fire, _vice versa_, as water; and be sure to send them all shattering out of reach and discrimination of all sense; and look into a dictionary for some such word as "chrysoprase," which we find to come from χρυσος gold, and πρασον a leek, and means a precious stone; it is capable of being shattered, together with "sunshine" -- the reader will think the whole passage a "flash" of moonshine. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.
  • Street gaslights add their glow to the swimming moonshine and are reflected in the siren's diamond coronet and huge dark eyes that know the secrets of the deep.
  • Have cotton picking too sometimes at night, moonshiney nights. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1
  • There was also that famous statement about the worth of splitting the atom, and nuclear physics in general, that anyone who thinks that this work is going to produce anything of value is talking moonshine.
  • She led Autumn into an office at the rear of the diner and mixed two drinks from a bottle of moonshine. ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH

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