Aqua fortis

this man’s whiskey ain’t Red Eye, it ain’t Chain Lightnin’ either, it’s regular Agur-forty, and there isn’t a man living can stand a glass and keep his senses.

“Watkey” [vodka] is, in fact, aquafortis, and more injurious than any other spirit.

Doubtless the drinking of liquor adds to the cost of our judiciary; doubtless it is responsible for some crime; but the question at issue is not one of liquor-drinking vs. teetotalism—it is a question of drinking licensed liquor or Prohibition aquafortis.

Here’s to her health and to her offspring haughty — And let the toast be drunk in aqua forty.

I’m in the best of spirits, the very best! Nothing like a few glasses of agur-forty to make a man feel on top of the world!