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Alcohol

noun

A liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent. Synonyms: alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, inebriant, intoxicant.

Any of a series of volatile hydroxyl compounds that are made from hydrocarbons by distillation.

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"Alcohol" Quotes from Famous Books

... alcohol gradually on to the following oils: a couple of drachms of the oil of rosemary, two of the oil of lemon, or orange-flower water, one drachm of lavender, ten drops of oil of cinnamon, ten of cloves, ...

— The American Housewife • Anonymous

... I think you might speak a word to her. She told me she loved champagne and tipsy-cake. The tipsy-cake doesn't matter, because it can be made without alcohol.—I beg ...

— Half a Hero - A Novel • Anthony Hope

... match burnt her fingers, and she swore weak explosive oaths, filthier than any I have heard from a bookmaker. She lisped, and there was a suggestion in her accent of East Prussia or Western Russia. Her face was permanently reddened by alcohol. The skin was coarse, almost scaly, and her whole person sagged abominably. She wore no corsets, but her green frock was of an artful shade to match her brassy hair. Her hat was new and jaunty ...

— Nights in London • Thomas Burke

... him with an absolute lack of physical delicacy, indifference to cleanliness, and the comparative coarseness of his life. He had acquired a taste for an occasional glass of such adulterated wine—the intellectual alcohol of luxury, the unwholesome stimulants of unhealthy rich men. Being unable to take these pleasures in the flesh, he inoculated his brain with them. That means a bad tongue in the morning and weakness in the ...

— Jean-Christophe Journey's End • Romain Rolland

... Americans hesitate to pay the trifling cost of insurance against war? Trifling? Yes. The annual cost of providing and maintaining an adequate army and navy would be far less than we spend every year on tobacco and alcohol. Less than fifty cents a month from every citizen would be sufficient. That amount, wisely expended, would enormously lessen the probability of war and would allow the United States, if war came, to face ...

— The Conquest of America - A Romance of Disaster and Victory • Cleveland Moffett

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