...When just drawn it is of amost delicious sweetness; but in a few days it acquires a tartish andmore spirituous flavour: though I never saw any one intoxicated by it... 
Olaudah Equiano 「The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African」
...Pomba is a sort of spirituous liquor, produced from a kind of grain grown in the country, which is cultivated by women, who nearly entirely superintend the preparation of the drink...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...In those days it was customary for nearly all classes to drink spirituous liquors; hence, the distilleries were sources of great pecuniary interest to those who owned them...
Austin Steward 「Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman」
...To these a spirituous solution ofnitric acid—a drachm to the ounce—was applied, and the entireof the exposed surface dressed with it...
Dinks, Mayhew, and Hutchinson 「The Dog」
...He had been always addicted to the use of spirituous liquors; but he now applied himself more closely to them, to drown the recollection of his disgrace...
David Collins 「An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 1」
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