bibbers

Awan who counsels kings; Haffan patron of wine-bibbers; Marrah of musicians and dancers; Masbut of news-spreaders (and newspapers?); Dulhán who frequents places of worship and interferes with devotion.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

I always thought a winehouse was for bibbers but apparently not.

Archive 2008-02-01 2008

Silence reigned for some time as the two bibbers buried their snouts in their goblets with appropriate sounds of content.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Silence reigned for some time as the two bibbers buried their snouts in their goblets with appropriate sounds of content.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

The boyaloa, or beer of the country, has more of a stupefying than exciting nature; hence the beer-bibbers are great sleepers; they may frequently be seen lying on their faces sound asleep.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

Meadowes, and other most pleasant Walkes, with Welles and Springs of faire running waters, all encompassed with branching Vines, fitter for curious and quaffing bibbers, then women sober, and singularly modest.

The Decameron 2004

Intoxicating liquors, especially Araki, are made in Al-Madinah, only by the Turks: the citizens seldom indulge in this way at home, as detection by smell is imminent among a people of water-bibbers.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

Many times some use is made thereof by tippling sweet-lipped bibbers, who out of it frame quills and pipes, through which they with their liquor-attractive breath suck up the new dainty wine from the bung of the barrel.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Many times some use is made thereof by tippling sweet-lipped bibbers, who out of it frame quills and pipes, through which they with their liquor-attractive breath suck up the new dainty wine from the bung of the barrel.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Be not among wine-bibbers, thinks I, and recalling that that verse ended with reference to riotous eaters of flesh, went in search of dinner.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985