Inebriates

Eliza objects, on principle, to anything like gambling; but as this was for the Deserving Inebriates, which is a good cause, she paid her shilling.

Eliza Barry Pain 1896

* Thus the money levied upon the death of some not very wealthy squire and represented by, say, locomotives in the Argentine, turns into two miles of palings for the pleasant back gardens of a thousand new officials under the Inebriates Bill, or is simply handed over to the shareholders of the Prudential under the Insurance Act.

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Inebriates have been repeatedly known to risk imminent death if they could not reach their liquor in any other way.

The Opium Habit Horace B. Day

Inebriates should be shut up in Alcoholloway Prison.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 16, 1892 Various

They set the basket of food beside Quimbleton, and carefully moved on through the strip of young trees until they neared the broad lawns that surround the Home for Inebriates.

In the Sweet Dry and Dry Christopher Morley 1923

Federal Home for Inebriates at Cana, N.J., reopened after two years 'vacation.

In the Sweet Dry and Dry Christopher Morley 1923

An ambulance, marked Federal Home for Inebriates, Cana, N.J., dashed up with shrilling gong.

In the Sweet Dry and Dry Christopher Morley 1923

And in spite of all this the city feels called upon to support a Home for Inebriates at Stockton and Chestnut streets, to which the supervisors contribute two hundred and fifty dollars a month.

A Backward Glance at Eighty Murdock, Charles A 1921

Home, an Inebriates 'Retreat all had a similar use for him.

In the Mist of the Mountains Ethel Sybil Turner 1915

It means a few months for you at the state's Home for Inebriates ... a bit of a rest, really ...

Broken to the Plow Charles Caldwell Dobie 1912