firewater

• “They bring out the aguardiente, the firewater, which is about eighty percent pure alcohol.”

  Simon & Schuster: Learning to Die in Miami

• “In fact, it's an aguardiente, or "firewater" liquor between between 30 and 60% alcohol content.”

  Jaunted - The Pop Culture Travel Guide

• “Monnet was a lapsed Catholic who married a divorcee - with a somewhat shady past which included selling, illegally, "firewater" to Canadian Indians.”

  Lettuce pray

• “But what kind of firewater is that, my dear, if you can drink it?”

  Hard to be a god

• “At least, the aboriginal races do not resist well the epidemics introduced by the whites; and many tribes have been exterminated by the effects of the 'firewater' and the vicious habits brought in by more civilised men.”

  From Slave to College President Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington

• “Who makes the "firewater," and who supplies the untutored savage with the means of intoxication?”

  A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America

• “They commenced supplying them with "firewater," thus attacking them in a weak point.”

  The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself

• “A loquacious Indian, after being generously dosed with "firewater," had told them of a lonely unknown place in the wilderness, where the ground was literally strewn with gold.”

  The Easiest Way A Story of Metropolitan Life

• “There are very few red men who will not steal; and they are so fond of "firewater," or intoxicating drink, that they are likely to commit worse crimes.”

  The Story of Red Feather A Tale of the American Frontier

• “He was fond of "firewater," was an inveterate thief, sullen and revengeful, quarrelsome at all times; and, when under the influence of drink, was feared almost as much by his own people as by the whites.”

  The Story of Red Feather A Tale of the American Frontier

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