11 Metaphors for alcohol

Alcohol had been the curse of Caribou, and in this camp spirits were to be for medicinal purposes only.

In brief, alcohol in any and every form is the enemy of successful and long-continued brain work.

I am feeling today as if it were no matter that the winter had been so hard; that we have no fuel but twigs; that the winter wheat was frozen; that we have eaten part of our seed potatoes and that another part of them was frost-bitten; that butter is a dollar a pound (and none to be had, even at that price, for days at a time); that wood alcohol is sixty- five cents a litre, and so on and so forth.

Sir Consul Tait, the famous physician, held that alcohol was the greatest provocative of colds; aspirin was their greatest enemy.

Wood alcohol, which is made by the destructive distillation of wood, is another important by-product.

The arrangements of this place appeared something like our northern horse-markets, having sheds, or barns, in the rear of a public house, where alcohol was a handy ingredient to stimulate the spirit of jockeying.

Short of drunkenness, that is, in those effects of it which stop short of drunkenness, I should say from my experience that alcohol is the most destructive agent we are aware of in this country."Sir

But, of all agents, alcohol is the most potent in establishing a heredity that exhibits itself in the destruction of mind and body.

He discovered that Alcohol was a Food long before the Medical Journals got onto it.

Alcohol is a stimulant-narcotic, isn't it?"

If it is true, as I surmise, that "alcohol" is a word of the Arabs, it is interesting to realise that our general word for the essence of wine and beer and such things comes from a people which has made particular war upon them.

11 Metaphors for  alcohol