wine-bibber

Malken can get poetically drunk, and usually does, on one cocktail; Aaron Hancock is an expert wine-bibber; and Terrence McFane, knowing little of one drink from another, and caring less, can put ninety-nine men out of a hundred under the table and go right on lucidly expounding epicurean anarchy.

CHAPTER X 2010

And the beginning of Flush of Gold is the old French wine-bibber, for he was the father of Marie Chauvet, and Marie Chauvet was the

Flush of Gold 2010

The Caliph was charmed with them and drank thereto, albeit he was no confirmed wine-bibber, saying,

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

“O my wine-bibber and a rebel against Him to whom belong creation and commandment?”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Well, it might be so, Mr. Tatham hoped so — but the father, Tatham knew personally — a man of the worst character, a wine-bibber and an idler in taverns and billiard-rooms, and a notorious insolvent.

The History of Pendennis 2006

'They will not linger long: Sir Philip Nunnely is no wine-bibber, and I hear him just now pass from the dining-room to the drawing-room.'

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

Among other objections to the Scriptures, he started this one to my travelling companion, whose name I now learnt was Maud, that it was said in the Bible that God was a wine-bibber.

Travels in England in 1782 2004

For a maid-servant with whom she used to go to the cellar, falling to words (as it happens) with her little mistress, when alone with her, taunted her with this fault, with most bitter insult, calling her wine-bibber.

The Confessions 1999

He was reproached as wine-bibber and a glutton; as a seditious person and mover of sedition; as a fanatic, and one beside himself.

The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

Christ was looked on by the world as an evil-doer; accused to be a glutton, a wine-bibber, a seditious person,

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967