Sentence examples for quantities of liquor from inspiring English sources

"You wouldn't believe the quantities of liquor they had at that inn," said Mrs. Noll.

He must be able to consume large quantities of liquor and still keep his equilibrium.

According to the police, the pledges were put in a garage, given large quantities of liquor and told to drink quickly while the brothers chanted "Puke and rally".

Until she came along in the early 19th century, the only national holiday was Independence Day, and it involved things that were only done by men -- parading down the street, creating large explosions, consuming massive quantities of liquor.

There are cigarettes, quantities of liquor, a brace of pretty twins and a barrel-load of prejudices: "Work had never previously taken him to the Middle East, and for this he was thankful.

Just as the lush's liver was merely doing its hepatic best to detoxify the large quantities of liquor in which it was doused, and just as the alcoholic would have been far worse off had the liver not been playing Hepa-filter in the first place, so our fat tissue, by efficiently absorbing the excess packets of energy we put in our mouths, has our best interests at heart.

The main ingredient in a cocktail will usually be the largest quantity amount of liquor.

And he orders a Bloody Mary, takes another furtive slug of whisky, gazes around the room seemingly unmoved by the quantity of liquor he's knocked back.

An individual, usually a woman, would fall into a kind of wasting illness, until her relatives agreed to "hire, for a certain sum of money, a band of trumpeters, drummers, and fifers, and buy a quantity of liquor; then all the young men and women of the place assemble at the patient's house," where they dance and generally party for days, invariably effecting a cure.

Though she consumed great quantities of bootleg liquor and had romances with decidedly suspicious men, it was always clear that a maternal heart and moral soul resided beneath the dazzle.

The firm had a small quantity of fine liquor, he said, that came in steadily through Canada and through boats from the West Indies.