strong drink

As he wrote in a letter, “I was foolish enough to take a good strong drink, eat a couple of slices of rich cake late at night.”

With these he learned to drink to excess, and was not unfrequently under the influence of strong drink.

An example of this fallacy is the popular error that strong drink must be a cause of strength.

And all these tens of thousands of unhappy people sleep in hovels, and subsist upon strong drink and wretched food.

So that if the Yankees are fond of strong drink, they will fare ill.

His father had heard of my desire to have the child sing, and had straggled into the mission under the influence of strong drink.