inebriety

Example Sentences

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I delight in localities where beautiful scenery exists, and where tired men can rest under trees without even being suspected of inebriety.

From Romance of California Life by Habberton, John

It is foolish to question the motives of men who, without thought of personal gain, are trying to remedy the evils of inebriety.

From Civics and Health by Allen, William H.

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 Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

Field indignantly repelled the suggestion that Nye's indiscretion was due to inebriety, but traced it to his bad health.

From Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 by Thompson, Slason

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