wine-bibber
Example Sentences
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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
The bigot, the deb- auchee, the hypocrite, called Jesus a glutton and a wine-bibber.
From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Eddy, Mary Baker
That he was a wine-bibber and good liver, gluttonously fond of whatever would yield him a little solacement, were it only of a stomachic character, is undeniable enough.
From In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays by Birrell, Augustine
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
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
