vinous

• Oh, reader, if wearer of p[)a]hnts, did you ever meet with a decoction, infusion, or other mixture whatsoever, vinous, alcoholic, or maltic, with or without sugar, that did not go to the right place? —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
• We often, however, counteract this salutary monitor by depraving our sense of taste, by the too free use of vinous or spirituous liquors, which so far deadens the sense of taste, that sweet substances become unpleasant, and nothing but acrid and stimulating things can make an impression on our diminished and vitiated sense of taste This sense, as well as others, is liable to be diseased. —  Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease
• At some time during the evening, by way of "exemplifying the work," Doctor John had for the second time taken the solemn vow henceforth and forever to abstain from the use of all fluids of alcoholic, vinous, or fermented character The hour for separation at length drew nigh. —  Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective
• Permission being graciously given him to proceed, he candidly admitted that he had no constitutional question himself to propound, but that Brother John was in grave doubt touching a question upon which he would be glad to have the opinion of the chair I understand," continued the speaker, "from the nature of the pledge that if any brother, or sister even for that matter, should partake of liquors alcoholic, vinous, or fermented, he or she would be liable to expulsion from the order. —  Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective
• Whether the poor Willelmus did not still, by secret channels, occasionally get some slight wetting of vinous or alcoholic liquor,--now grown, in a manner, indispensable to the poor man? —  Past and Present

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