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 Towns, Charles B.

However, 'tis expedient to be wary: Indifference, certes, don't produce distress; And rash enthusiasm in good society Were nothing but a moral inebriety.

From The Art of Public Speaking by Carnagey, Dale

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 Eliot, Charles, Sir

After this riot had continued long enough in its inebriety, the corrective came through the influence of Rubens in the North and of Lebrun in France.

From The Tapestry Book by Candee, Helen Churchill Hungerford, Mrs.

Rash enthusiasm, in good society Were nothing but a moral inebriety.

From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various