drunkards

The bench of the drunkards is the seat of the scornful.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

The seat of the drunkards is the seat of the scornful, Ps. lxix.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

They are sometimes known as the "drunkards of Islam," owing to their ecstatic love of Allah.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Eric Weiner 2011

The margin reads it drunkards from the wilderness, that would drink healths to the prosperity of this grand alliance, and force them upon others, and be most noisy in shouting upon this occasion.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

Such he has been heralded, however, to future ages, as a murderer -- like hundreds and thousands of others, as "horse thieves" -- as "drunkards" -- as "rogues of the first order",

Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians 1841

Mr. Hall stated, in conclusion, that he had since been aiming to be useful to his fellow-men, and had written a Tract, the object of which was to call drunkards, and all sinners to repentance, of which more than one hundred thousand copies had been circulated.

Select Temperance Tracts American Tract Society

We should be known as drunkards all over the shop before you could say winkie.

Miss Mapp 1903

It was a passion with her, a mania, a veritable mental disease; a temptation such as drunkards only know.

McTeague 1920

It was a passion with her, a mania, a veritable mental disease; a temptation such as drunkards only know.

McTeague 1899

It was a passion with her, a mania, a veritable mental disease; a temptation such as drunkards only know.

McTeague Frank Norris 1886