drunkards

• In some towns the drunkards are all dead.--_Bacchus. —  Object Lessons on the Human Body A Transcript of Lessons Given in the Primary Department of School No. 49, New York City
• Leicester having expressly urged the importance of selecting as wise a politician as could be found--because the best man in England would hardly be found a match for the dullards and drunkards, as it was the fashion there to call the Dutch statesmen--had selected Wilkes. —  History of the United Netherlands, 1586d
• The worst of them was that they were great drunkards, and the English learnt this bad custom of them CHAPTER VI THE NORMAN CONQUEST. —  Young Folks' History of England
• A frightful endemic demoralization betrays itself in the frequency with which the haggard features and drooping shoulders of the opium-drunkards are met with in the streets The next proposition I would ask you to consider is this: The presumption always is that every noxious agent, including medicines proper, which hurts a well man, hurts a sick one. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
• To the poor and to hopeless drunkards, as I myself have witnessed, he was like a painstaking guardian. —  The Good Soldier

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