inebriety

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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 Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

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 Stael-Holstein, Auguste Louis Baron de

The bucolic gentleman, who had completely lost his appearance of inebriety, mumbled a few incoherent words and departed.

From An Amiable Charlatan by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

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.

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 Beckford, William