aguardiente

• Besides, the peon's blood has again been warmed up, and his tongue set loose, by a fresh infusion of aguardiente--so that his confessions are full as free. —  The Lone Ranche
• A four-gallon keg of aguardiente,[109] from which we dealt out half a gill daily to each man, kept our Indians in good humor Footnote 109: This is the rum of the Andes, corresponding to the cashaça of Brazil. —  The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America
• Rub yourself with aguardiente (native rum) after a bath, and always when caught in a shower. —  The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America
• I will now go and send you some aguardiente, for you must be thirsty." —  The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California
• Ay! but there was a time when he was wild,--when the mescal burnt his throat like hornets and the aguardiente was like scorpions in his brain; but that was long ago, before he was twenty; now he is thirty-four. —  The Doomswoman An Historical Romance of Old California

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