For the sensation it produced made him resolve he would never again taste a drop of intoxicating liquor.

His first convert to total abstinence was a man named John King; Livesey and he signed together; and on 1st September, 1832, at a meeting held at Preston, seven men"the Seven Men of Preston," as they are calledsigned the pledge, of which the following is a facsimile: [Handwritten: We agree to abstain from all Liquors of an Intoxicating Quality, whether ale porter Wine, or Ardent Spirits, except as Medicine.

The methods by which intoxicating drinks impair and often ruin digestion are various.

It irritates and dries the mucous membrane of the mouth and throat, producing an unnatural thirst which becomes an enticement to the use of intoxicating liquors.

In the intoxicating blaze of triumph and admiration she panted for domestic beatitudes, and found the earnest cravings of her soul unsatisfied.

But the song became gradually stronger like a brook in the mountain after a rain; then more powerful, sweeter, more intoxicating, and it filled the air voluptuously.

Drunkenness is not a mere matter of intoxicating liquors; it goes deeperfar deeper.

The word acan meant wine, or rather, mead, the intoxicating hydromel the natives manufactured.

Thus I declaimed to myself in my heart, under the influence of the seductive temptations of that intoxicating atmosphere.

He played two of his great concert pieces, and their intricate melodiesbrocaded, embroidered, festoonedpoured themselves through the windows into the garden in a procession majestic and impassioned, perturbing the intent soul of the solitary listener, swathing her in intoxicating sound.

And when the curtain fell on the opening act, the intoxicating human quality of an operatic success was equally revealed to me for the first time.

David, also, drank it in still more eagerly, taking deep intoxicating draughts, as the thirsty take cool, sparkling wine.

It was hashish that the Old Man of the Mountain, the chief of the sect of Assassins, had recourse to for intoxicating his adepts, and it was, it is thought, by the use of a virulent solanaceous planthenbane, thornapple, or belladonnathat he succeeded in rendering them insensible.

Move in the most reasonable and direct way toward the ultimate abolition of the sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage, and for the increase of hospital and college privileges for the afflicted and the ignorant.

I wrote and whether my influence had anything to do with it or not, I do not know, but he came from New York and when he was in about the middle of his lecture, he came to that sentence, "Young man, keep your record clear, for a single glass of intoxicating liquor may somewhere, in after years, change into a horrid monster that shall carry you down to woe."

Take for instance the wholesale prohibition of intoxicating liquor by the Mahommedan religion, or again the strong Temperance movement that has more lately been established among Christians.

And he watched her, stupefied, like one in a dream, and all the while she bathed him with intoxicating side glances shot like arrows from the bow of her arching brows.

No child under 12 may be employed in any factory, or any place where intoxicating liquor is sold; and no child under 12 may labour more than nine hours a day.

Children under 14 may not work in mine, factory, hotel, or be messenger; no child under 16 shall work more than nine hours per day; nor be let out for any exhibition or vocation which endangers health or morals; nor ever be sent to any immoral resort or serve or handle intoxicating liquors.

No child under 14 to be employed in any place where intoxicating liquors are sold or in factory or bowling alley; and shall not labour more than eight hours.

LABOUR LAWS: No female may be employed in any place where intoxicating liquors are sold; Seats must be provided for female employees.

Through the window-gratings under the doors, through the walls, the virginal perfume of the vast orchards filteredan intoxicating breath, that Rafael, in his impassioned restlessness, imagined as wafted from the Blue House, caressing Leonora's lovely figure, and catching something of the divine fragrance of her redolent beauty.

Nature, intoxicating her, shattering her will, seemed to have created a strange virginity in that body so familiar with the call of passion.

What were they but the intoxicating, unhealthful perfume of a whole career of corruptness and licentiousness, the concentrated essence of a world madly dashing at her seductive beauty, as a bird of night breaks its head against the globe of a lighthouse?

If that needs proof you have only, dear friends, to meditate upon such lives as Newton, or Shakespeare, or Kepler, or if you turn to the region of meditative thought, to such lives as our own George Eliotyes, there is that in the mere exercise of intellect which is intoxicating, which is consoling even to the highest degree.