1 And raising good cotton, riding well, shooting straight, dancing lightly, squiring the ladies with elegance and carrying one's liquor like a gentleman were the things that mattered.
2 His hat was gone, his crisp long hair was tumbled in a white mane, his cravat was under one ear, and there were liquor stains down his shirt bosom.
3 He was drunk and showing it and she had never before seen him show his liquor, no matter how much he drank.
4 He was not drinking as he had formerly, becoming increasingly more polished and biting as the liquor took hold of him, saying amusing, malicious things that made her laugh in spite of herself.
5 By dusk, the liquor warehouses, Hebraic clothing-shops, and lodging-houses on lower Hennepin Avenue were smoky, hideous, ill-tempered.
6 The liquor soon mounted into their heads, as it generally does even with the arrantest topers newly landed from sea, and they began capering about most obstreperously.
7 She drank the liquor from the glass as a man would have done.
8 So there came a time when nearly all the conscious life of Jurgis consisted of a struggle with the craving for liquor.
9 He was a big, red-faced Irishman, coarse-featured, and smelling of liquor.
10 Magua foolishly opened his mouth, and the hot liquor led him into the cabin of Munro.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 11 11 He had liquor in him; I could see that; and besides, he always has.
12 The accidental discovery, just made, that the proprietor of the Temperance Tavern kept liquor on his premises, scarcely fluttered the public pulse, tremendous as the fact was.
13 Then nothing but liquor had been found; there would have been a great powwow if it had been the gold.
14 They poured out the liquor, and made the most friendly gesticulations; while a cold perspiration trickled down the back of the poor Councillor.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE 15 Now all this time the ale was running too, for Catherine had not turned the cock; and when the jug was full the liquor ran upon the floor till the cask was empty.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In FREDERICK AND CATHERINE