inebriety
Example Sentences
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A year or two ago I made a somewhat comprehensive European tour, and studied carefully the methods of dealing with inebriety.
From Habits that Handicap The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy by Charles B. Towns
In two other cases nervous exhaustion from typhoid and typhus fever produced the same outcome in inebriety on the part of the father and mother.
From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Eugene S. Talbot
Thus in the allegorical Vishnuite drama called Prabodhacandrodaya and written at Kalanjar near the end of the eleventh century Buddhists and Jains are represented as succumbing to the temptations of inebriety and voluptuousness.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Sir Charles Eliot
In twenty cases various neurosal disorders had been prominent in the family and its branches, of which neuralgia, chorea, hysteria, eccentricity, mania, epilepsy and inebriety, were most common.
From Grappling with the Monster The Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
The inebriety of hope seized all the guests; as for me, I felt myself bathed in tears.
From Ten Years' Exile Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness De Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself, during the Years 1810, 1811, 1812, and 1813, and Now First Published from the Original Manuscript, by Her Son. by Auguste Louis Baron de Stael-Holstein
