liveners

In the train next morning there are blotchy faces, dull eyes, tongues with a bitter taste, and there is a general rush for "liveners" before the men go to office or warehouse; and the day drags on until the joyous evening comes, when some new form of debauch drowns the memory of the morning's headache.

The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour James Runciman 1871

Infected - The The (watched 'em thru one eye due to few too many pre gig 'liveners' around

Word Magazine - Comments 2009

Infected - The The (watched 'em thru one eye due to few too many pre gig 'liveners' around

Word Magazine - Comments 2009

Infected - The The (watched 'em thru one eye due to few too many pre gig 'liveners' around

Word Magazine - Comments 2009

The German referee Wolf-Dieter Ahlenfelder, by contrast, was knocked sideways by a few pre-match liveners.

Which trophies have been pinched, stolen, nabbed and nicked? 2010

There were quite a lot of people in and around the pool, all suntanned and all drinking the Sunday morning liveners – Bloody Marys, boilermakers, highballs, iced beer.

Burton’s First Encounter with Taylor 2008

At a party or a public meeting in the Wheat Pit or the battlefield, women, or the recollection of a woman, form or forms one of the greatest liveners to conversation, speech, or action.

The Man Who Lost Himself 1907

In the interests of tour diplomacy, we notice, they've neatly laid out some - ahem - liveners for

NME Features 2010

Gives me the chance to get across to my local boozer, away from the wife and kids and spend a couple of hours reading the Sundays and having a couple of pre-Sunday lunch liveners.

Army Rumour Service ham-shank 2010

The unnamed 62-year-old was holding a "sledding party" at his Independence Township home last Saturday night, and after a few liveners decided it was a really bright idea to assemble an improvised go-faster machine "using a motorcycle muffler, a piece of pipe, gunpowder, match heads and gasoline".

The Register 2010