tipplings

For, as for betraying the confidences of those sad days, as for telling how wofully untrue Professors of Temperance were to their principles, how the Apostle of Total Abstinence developed a brandy-flask, not altogether new, what unsuccessful tipplings were attempted in the desperation of nausea, and for what lady that stunning brandy-smasher was mixed, -- as for such tales out of school, I would have you know that

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 Various

After these feeble and diluted tipplings, her day with Aunt Victoria was like a huge draught of raw spirits.

The Bent Twig Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

Vile creature! and is the Emperor drugged with mandragora that he should hear of this and never know the rest, your daylight iniquities, your tipplings, your monstrous nightly debauches?

Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 of Samosata Lucian 1895

How fulsome are your flatteries on these occasions! how indecent your tipplings!

Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 of Samosata Lucian 1894

Having often renewed their tipplings, each mother's son retired on board his own ship, and set sail all so fast with a merry gale at south-east; to which point of the compass the chief pilot, James Brayer by name, had shaped his course, and fixed all things accordingly.

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

Having often renewed their tipplings, each mother’s son retired on board his own ship, and set sail all so fast with a merry gale at south-east; to which point of the compass the chief pilot, James Brayer by name, had shaped his course, and fixed all things accordingly.

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

Having often renewed their tipplings, each mother’s son retired on board his own ship, and set sail all so fast with a merry gale at south-east; to which point of the compass the chief pilot, James Brayer by name, had shaped his course, and fixed all things accordingly.

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