dram-drinking

A surgeon in Mississippi the year before, for example, had described Sherman's army as "the noisiest crowd of profane-swearing, dram-drinking, card-playing, song-singing, reckless, impudent daredevils in the world."

'War Like the Thunderbolt' 2009

Socialism, grim tracts on flesh-eating and dram-drinking, we felt the glad refreshment of its sense and melody, and thanked the fine office which speaks to the imagination, and paints with electric pencil a new form, — new forms on the lurid cloud.

Uncollected Prose 2006

Dick Ivy, who we imagined had died of dram-drinking; but he is lately emerged from the Fleet, by means of a pamphlet which he wrote and published against the government with some success.

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

Let her say what she chose for her mother, or even for her profane, dram-drinking, vulgar old uncle, but it was too much that she should take up the cudgels for Alaric Tudor.

The Three Clerks 2004

She vied with the stoutest warrior in eating the flesh of the sacrifice; and after all the other females were fuddled with dram-drinking, she was not so intoxicated but that she was able to play the game of the platter with the conjuring sachem, and afterwards go through the ceremony of her own wedding, which was consummated that same evening.

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

The condition may appear humble and prosaic to those exalted by the fumes of Fancy, by a spiritual dram-drinking, which, like the physical, is the pursuit of an ideal happiness.

The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi 2003

At last, to keep up his hilarious public level, he fell back on that dram-drinking he had abandoned long ago.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

At last, to keep up his hilarious public level, he fell back on that dram-drinking he had abandoned long ago.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

They get into a habit of daily -- almost hourly -- dram-drinking, and go on, year after year, in this way; seeming, as far as we could judge, to live a long while, such a life as it is.

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

Schiedam Schnapps, the virtues whereof, according to his advertisements, are fast transferring dram-drinking from the domain of pleasure to that of positive duty?

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Various