"three" in the Big Book

We gave up our positions and off we roared on a motorcycle, the sidecar stuffed with tent, blankets, a change of clothes, and three huge volumes of a finan-

“Bathtub’’ gin, two bottles a day, and often three, got to be routine.

For three or four months the goose hung high.

Our description of the alcoholic, the chapter to the agnostic, and our personal adventures before and after make clear three pertinent ideas: (a) That we were alcoholic and could not manage our own lives.

Being convinced, we were at Step Three, which is that we decided to turn our will and our life over to God as we understood Him.

We were now at Step Three.

Three: This husband has gone much further than husband number two.

If you have a number three husband, you may be in luck.

We have three little mottoes which are apropos.

Here were three exceptional men lost to this world because I did not understand alcoholism as I do now.

I pointed out that I had had nothing to drink whatever for three years, and this in the face of difficulties that would have made nine out of ten men drink their heads off.

If this presents difficulty, re-reading chapters two and three, where the alcoholic sickness is discussed at length might be worth while.

Perhaps he could handle, say, three drinks—no more!

The use of spiritual principles in * This refers to Bill’s and Dr. Bob’s first visit to A.A. Number Three.

The last three times, I got drunk on the way home from here.

So, you see, there were three alcoholics in that town, who now felt they had to give to others what they had found, or be sunk.

He had three visitors.

He was there three months.

A year and six months later these three had succeeded with seven more.