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Definition of Firewaters
1. firewater [n] - See also: firewater
Lexicographical Neighbors of Firewaters
Literary usage of Firewaters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Curiosities of Popular Customs and of Rites, Ceremonies, Observances, and by William Shepard Walsh (1897)
"... bargain gave the ' noble red men' a barbecue, consisting of venison and
sweetened hoe-cake, followed by plenty of imported rum and other ' firewaters. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1847)
"Dominoes \veie playing at cards with Italian Counts. Turks were drinking the
firewaters of the Franks at side-tables. Gauchos were there rigged out in all ..."
3. The Illustrated History of Methodism in Great Britain and America, from the by W. H. Daniels (1880)
"... we drink no more of the firewaters.' "' O, but you will drink with me ; we
always good friends.' But wliile this son of Belial was urging them to drink, ..."
4. Journal of the Reverend Peter Jacobs: Indian Wesleyan Missionary, from Rice by Peter Jacobs, Jacobs, Peter, 1808-1858 (1853)
"... when the Indians said, " When we were Heathen, wo never gave up drinking the
firewaters the whole night; and why should we now go to bod? ..."
5. Observations in Europe: Principally in France and Great Britain by John Price Durbin (1844)
"... and who generally have all the grog-houses under their control, by paying the
rent, and putting a tenant in to sell their firewaters. ..."
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