aqua-vitae

A natural tonic of minerals, astringents, and aqua-vitae, made by appointment to the Duke of Liguria.

The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008

A natural tonic of minerals, astringents, and aqua-vitae, made by appointment to the Duke of Liguria.

The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008

A natural tonic of minerals, astringents, and aqua-vitae, made by appointment to the Duke of Liguria.

The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008

I will rather trust a Fleming with my butter, Parson Hugh the Welshman with my cheese, an Irishman with my aqua-vitae bottle, or a thief to walk my ambling gelding, than my wife with herself; then she plots, then she ruminates, then she devises; and what they think in their hearts they may effect, they will break their hearts but they will effect.

The Merry Wives of Windsor 2004

"Noll's nose a-fire, and the devil's youngest daughter to baste it with aqua-vitae!"

Cromwell Alfred B. Richards

I prayed her to have a posset, or some aqua-vitae, and to get to bed and sleep a little for her health's sake, but she answered me she was afraid she might dream.

The Duchess of Padua Oscar Wilde 1877

IT seemed strange to me when I was told, that aqua-vitae, which restores life to others, should itself be made of the droppings of dead beer; and that strong waters should be extracted out of the dregs

Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers. 1608-1661 1863

Many a cask of ale and cider is on tap, and many a draught of spiced wine and aqua-vitae has been quaffed.

Main Street (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales") Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

They transgressed without fear or scruple, the rules of behaviour that were binding on all others: smoking tobacco under the beadle's very nose, although each whiff would have cost a townsman a shilling; and quaffing at their pleasure, draughts of wine or aqua-vitae from pocket flasks, which they freely tendered to the gaping crowd around them.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

You shall drink rum, brandy, gin, aqua-vitae, usquebaugh, or whiskey a 'nights; and for the after-dinner trick I have eight bottles of genuine port, which, if mathematically divided, gives 1-1/7 for every day you stay, provided you stay a week.

The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805