insobriety
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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.
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“Great Britain,” says Lloyd George, “must be freed of ignorance, insobriety, penury, and the tyranny of man over man.”
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The least motion of the affections and heart that way, is insobriety, and inordinate affections.
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Morland suspended for a time his habit of insobriety, discarded the social comrades of his laxer hours, and imagined himself reformed.
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But it happens that whenever I have looked into local affairs I have found the same sort of waste and--insobriety of arrangement.
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