insobriety
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“Great Britain,” says Lloyd George, “must be freed of ignorance, insobriety, penury, and the tyranny of man over man.”
From The So-called Human Race by Taylor, Bert Leston
On this subject the writer reproduces his opinion as expressed in ‘Oars and Sculls’ in 1873:— The tendency to ‘coppers’ in training is no proof of insobriety.
From Boating by Woodgate, W. B.
Morland suspended for a time his habit of insobriety, discarded the social comrades of his laxer hours, and imagined himself reformed.
From Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) by Spooner, Shearjashub
This makes me think that we ought to be grateful to have so glaring an example of insobriety before our eyes.
From South Wind by Douglas, Norman
Ye seek it as if it were your portion and inheritance, surely this is insobriety.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh
