inebriety

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This condition differs from the condition called inebriety in the fact that it is a periodical expression of degeneracy whose form has been accidently determined, but which would exist even were its form changed.

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A year or two ago I made a somewhat comprehensive European tour, and studied carefully the methods of dealing with inebriety.

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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.

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His attention was next claimed by the merchant, who proposed that the men should be allowed to sleep out their inebriety where they lay.

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The traveller Smyth thought them "kind, hospitable and generous," but "illiberal, noisy and rude," and much "addicted to inebriety and averse to labor."

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