wine-bibber
Example Sentences
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True, the Bacchante is in fact Diana herself; but of this Endymion knows nothing at all, and he deliberately—or rather with fatuous precipitancy—gives up the glorious goddess for the sentimental and beguiling wine-bibber.
From Life of John Keats by Rossetti, William Michael
In Matthew, Jesus is depicted as a glutton and a wine-bibber.
From The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal by Saltus, Edgar
I wonder whether I have succeeded in making that wine-bibber go to bed supperless?
From The Pacha of Many Tales by Marryat, Frederick
No wonder then that his sociable friend on his right, seeing how his guest held his tankard, and refused every dish which he offered him, took him for an incorrigible wine-bibber.
From The Banished A Swabian Historical Tale. In Three Volumes. by Hauff, Wilhelm
She had never represented any of her saints as a wine-bibber, a gross beef-eater, or a narrow-headed, crafty, cringing creature.
From Half a Century by Swisshelm, Jane Grey Cannon
