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  • Simply choose one book that you feel meets the criteria for Readers Imbibing Peril II and, well, imbibe it!

    Archive 2007-08-01 Stephanie 2007

  • Simply choose one book that you feel meets the criteria for Readers Imbibing Peril II and, well, imbibe it!

    It's FINALLY here: RIP2!!! Stephanie 2007

  • Imbibing starts at 6:00 and Cheryl says there's a back garden, weather permitting.

    Archive 2006-09-01 fusenumber8 2006

  • Imbibing another large swallow of the sherry, I felt my entire being infused with a sense of such profound contentment that the glum, oppressive kitchen—with its cobwebbed roof beams and crimson-eyed rodents peering out from the shadowy corners—began to assume a most pleasing, snug, and even homelike aspect in my perception.

    Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999

  • Imbibing this fluid men are born, and live, as long as they keep it.

    Lunheng 1962

  • Imbibing unorthodox views he was formally excommunicated from the synagogue, and philosophy henceforth became the sole pursuit of his mind.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics Various 1910

  • Imbibing such philosophy from her earliest infancy, the father taking good care to press them deep into her plastic mind, it is not astonishing that Ninon should discard the more distasteful fruits to be painfully harvested by following her mother's tuition, and accept the easily gathered luscious golden fruit offered her by her father.

    Ninon de L'Enclos the Celebrated Beauty of the 17th Century Robinson, Charles Henry 1903

  • Imbibing unconsciously the spirit of his companions, and imitating by degrees their habits and conversation, he became profane before he knew it, -- excusing himself on the plea that every body swore in the army.

    The Drummer Boy 1871

  • Imbibing his parents 'contempt for letters, he was very illiterate, and as he had not enjoyed the equivalent of travel, was extremely ignorant on all matters not relating to hunting or plantation duties.

    Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana "Swamp Doctor" 1858

  • Imbibing a bumper of one or the other not ungratefully, I thought to myself, "Here surely, Mr. Roundabout, is a good text for one of your reverence's sermons."

    Roundabout Papers William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

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