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wine-bibber

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He is lazy and filthy, gluttonous, and would be a wine-bibber had he the chance. 

The Australian is not himself a wine-bibber.

Though I am wont a wine-bibber to be, Why should the people rail and chide at me?

By a Persuasion, founded on so just an Inference, I have the Courage to venture on t'other Glass, which is no sooner drank but I reel, and can drink no more; when in order to finish me M. de Pechtelsheim, one of the honestest Gentlemen living, but the staunchest Wine-bibber that I know, accosts me with a Smile and says, Come, dear Baron, one Glass more to better Acquaintance.

In his Youth, he was a Wine-Bibber, and a Deboshee;38 but it has been observ'd, that neither Wine nor Women can detain him, when he is in the pursuit of Glory.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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