How To Use Spirituous In A Sentence
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On leave, many of your men gravitate towards the Piccadilly neighbourhood, where, despite the black-out, rationing and high prices, a certain spirituous gaiety is still achieved, but this is more likely to lower the bank account than to raise the view of the earnestness of our war-effort.
Dunkirk to Dieppe and Beyond
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He turned out to be a Finn, and at dinner he had smelt spirituous and been virtually incoherent.
DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
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Mrs. Fryar-Gannett had then become the blazing regnant antisocial star; a distresser of domesticity, the magnetic attraction in the spirituous flames of that wild snapdragon bowl, called the Upper class; and she was angelically blonde, a straw-coloured
Diana of the Crossways — Complete
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The current occupant of the White House, we all know is a tee-totaler, but previous Presidents have been well-known for their spirituous preferences.
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But since the introduction among us of what you call spirituous liquors, and what we think may justly be called poison, our numbers are greatly diminished.
A Visit to the United States in 1841
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Hence luxury in all its forms; delicate food, the use of tobacco and opium, spirituous liquors, fine clothes, and the thousand and one things than he considers necessary to his existence.
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Exposed to the fierce rays of a vertical sun; exhausted by a long train of suffering; deprived for a long while, the use of any kind of spirituous liquors, when our portions of water, wine and brandy mingled in our stomachs we became like insane people.
Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.
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However clear the day, and it was beautifully clear, with deep blue skies, Hardanger would be seen by him through a thick spirituous mist.
DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
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To him spirituous liquor is a superfluous and dangerous luxury.
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To him spirituous liquor is a superfluous and dangerous luxury.
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Madison advocated duties upon "articles of requisition likely to occasion the least difficulty," such as spirituous liquors, molasses, wines, tea, coffee, cocoa, pepper, and sugar.
Union and Democracy
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I had rather thought the Finn might be howling for spirituous liquor, but all was still.
DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
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I have sometimes remarked a kind of spirituous taste in fruits that were over ripe, especially oranges; and this was just before they became rotten.
Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments
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He was, naturally enough, exceedingly put out, and vexed; and unhappily betook himself to a neighbouring tavern for 'spirituous' solacement -- a very rare thing, let me add, for him to do.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 Volume 18, New Series, October 16, 1852
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Exposed to the fierce rays of a vertical sun; exhausted by a long train of suffering; deprived for a long while the use of any kind of spirituous liquors, when our portions of water, wine, and brandy, mingled in our stomachs we became like insane people.
Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770
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spirituous liquors
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I don't suppose you have such a thing as a bottle of something spirituous upon you?
STARDUST
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This mixture should be kept in small tin boxes; when it is to be used moisten a camel-hair pencil with any kind of spirituous liquor, and with it make a lather from the soap, which is to be applied to the inner surface of all parts of the skin, and also to such bones as may not be removed.
Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling a
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Brothers and friends -- When your forefathers first met on this island, your red brethren were very numerous; but, since the introduction amongst us of what you call spirituous liquors, and what we think may justly be called poison, our numbers are greatly diminished.
History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians
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The spirituous solution of pelargonic ether may also be profitably prepared from oleic acid, according to Gottlieb's method.
The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants
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An overflow crowd, clearly inebriated by spirituous drink, literally gathered around the field and scaled nearby trees to watch the game.
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Mrs. Fryar-Gannett had then become the blazing regnant antisocial star; a distresser of domesticity, the magnetic attraction in the spirituous flames of that wild snapdragon bowl, called the Upper class; and she was angelically blonde, a straw-coloured Beauty.
Diana of the Crossways — Volume 5
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a certain kind of jocoseness which is so naturally associated with spirituous liquors; no talk could have been less offensive.
By the Ionian Sea
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-- O Manning, if I should have formed a diabolical resolution, by the time you come to England, of not admitting any spirituous liquors into my house, will you be my guest on such shameworthy terms?
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb
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The food was served in the house and the wake participants then adjourned ‘to a very large barn, in which spirituous liquors of every kind, and tobacco in profusion, with pipes, were distributed.’
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The old grass and the sprouting needles of new grass greened, the buds on the guelder-rose, the buds and the sticky, spirituous birches swelled, and on the willow, all sprinkled with golden catkins, the flitting, newly-hatched bee buzzed.
Tolstoy III: Invisible Larks
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On leave, many of your men gravitate towards the Piccadilly neighbourhood, where, despite the black-out, rationing and high prices, a certain spirituous gaiety is still achieved, but this is more likely to lower the bank account than to raise the view of the earnestness of our war-effort.
Dunkirk to Dieppe and Beyond
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Insects crawled freely around the cracks in the walls, and across the bottles of spirituous beverages.
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News_ (Saskatchewan), it is remarked that "the absence of any kind of spirituous liquors around the festive board and the fact that the ladies were present" were unique features of the entertainment.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 29, 1916
