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  • The thought once more occurs that this ought to be filed, in due course and after the whole world has laughed itself to death, under ‘Serious & Bibulous Parties’, ‘Breweries’ and ‘Organize’.

    Chief Lemon Sucker Chews On Pith 2008

  • The thought once more occurs that this ought to be filed, in due course and after the whole world has laughed itself to death, under ‘Serious & Bibulous Parties’, ‘Breweries’ and ‘Organize’.

    Archive 2008-04-20 2008

  • Bibulous old Bacchus was always represented in classic sculpture with a wreath of Ivy round his laughing brows; and it has been said that if the foreheads of those whose potations run deep were bound with frontlets of Ivy the nemesis of headache would be prevented thereby.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • "The performance of _The Bibulous Butler_ at the Corinthian Theatre last night was witnessed by Mr. James Milfly and party, who occupied two seats in the eighth row of the pit."

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-29 Various

  • Bibulous dignitaries sit in council around Governor Alvarado's table.

    The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance Richard Savage 1874

  • Bibulous paper of different degrees of permeability was then cut into pieces of such a size as to be easily introduced between the loosened halves of the cup, and served when the latter were tightened again to form a porous division down the middle of the cup, sufficient to keep any two fluids on opposite sides of the paper from mingling, except very slowly, and yet allowing them to act freely as one _electrolyte_.

    Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 Michael Faraday 1829

  • R.R. Wilson says of him, "Bibulous, slow-witted and loose of life and morals, Van

    Greenwich Village Anna Alice Chapin 1900

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