inebriety
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It was not likely she had given him money, said Cutler, because he was about the post all that day after the Plumes' departure and with never a sign of inebriety.
From An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier by Frederic Remington
There was, however, too much method in the next proceedings for it to be attributed wholly to emotional inebriety.
From Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 by Ruth Putnam
Nouronihar, in the inebriety of youthful spirits, being used only to eunuchs of ordinary harems, and having never seen anything so eminently disgusting, was far more diverted than all the rest.
From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by William Beckford
However, 't is expedient to be wary: Indifference certes don't produce distress; And rash enthusiasm in good society Were nothing but a moral inebriety.
From Don Juan by George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron
This gave the room the appearance of having been toyed with by an impatient cyclone, or an air of inebriety not in keeping with my poor but honest character.
From A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories by Edgar Wilson
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