inebriate

Testimonials to the cup that cheers but does not inebriate have been culled from Thackeray, Athaeneus, Pliny, Aristotle, Galen, Plutarch.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was an earthly personification of Emily Dickinson's inebriate of air and debauchee of dew, stoned on life and art.

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United Architects entered a widely seen proposal in the competition, an ensemble of five slightly inebriate towers.

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What to drink that won't inebriate Put on weight or contain cyclamate.

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In the pointed gable, just under the roof, a tiny window with a light behind it seemed to be blinking out of the darkness like the single eye of some inebriate loafer.

From The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

And as a pair, they can be as quick, acerbic and caustically funny as the inebriates in the classic English movie “Withnail and I,” which is saying a lot.

From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2015

In China, to get natives to buy kerosene, Standard salesmen sold lamps for less than a song, for a cheep as inebriates of Singapore used to say.

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Snug as a bug, the cup he waits That cheers but not inebriates, She offers him a truly ducal tea, Whipped up, she says, with no diffewclty.

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From the silver tea-kettle, kept at an even temperature by the lamp beneath, he poured into a cup of the rarest Japan porcelain, the beverage "that cheers, but not inebriates."

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various

Let every path that leads to delight, let every gratification that inebriates the soul be discovered.

From Imogen A Pastoral Romance by Godwin, William

“We all walked with her. She was perfectly OK. Not inebriated at all,” Merksamer says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2022

While he testified that Depp became increasingly inebriated, he said he witnessed an argument between the couple, and Depp “was kind of cowering and seemed almost afraid,” which was “odd to see.”

From Washington Post ● May 24, 2022

Alternatively, a big dollop of very white, very thick cream is a fitting partner, making your patiently inebriated and majestic pears even more alluring.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 30, 2018

In developing this version, Ayer and Leto settled on someone who is a businessman at his core - inebriated with power and the absolute authority of his own instinct.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 3, 2016

What Disraeli said of Gladstone was also true of Churchill: he was “a sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.”

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

I was overcome by exhilarating, almost inebriating, episodes of gratitude overload brought on by an appreciation of small pleasures.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2022

Museums and thousands of cool regional events often need volunteers, and the perks can be inebriating.

From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2011

They fear a new age of philistinism, a moment when the nation finally gives up on serious culture and focuses instead on making money and inebriating itself on talent contests and celebrity chat shows.

From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2011

The odors of peanuts, mustard and beer waft over the emerald green grass, and in the inebriating sunshine, laughter and catcalls issue from the bleachers.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was something inebriating in the suppleness of this feat.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles