inebriates
Example Sentences
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And as a pair, they can be as quick, acerbic and caustically funny as the inebriates in the classic English movie “Withnail and I,” which is saying a lot.
From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2015
In China, to get natives to buy kerosene, Standard salesmen sold lamps for less than a song, for a cheep as inebriates of Singapore used to say.
From Time Magazine Archive
Snug as a bug, the cup he waits That cheers but not inebriates, She offers him a truly ducal tea, Whipped up, she says, with no diffewclty.
From Time Magazine Archive
The beverage, too, which is drank as a beverage, as I before remarked in a previous chapter, cheers, but not inebriates.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 11, 1841 by Various
"We've already acquired a few Rhodesian vices, such as an unlimited capacity for tea-drinking, and Gelungwa can make quite a decent apology for the beverage which cheers but not inebriates."
From The Rhodesian by Page, Gertrude
