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“I have; but I deeply regret that your Majesty thinks it fitting to be intimate with such a free-liver, such a glutton and wine-bibber and mocker and buffoon.”

From Satires And Profanities by G. W. (George William) Foote

True, the Bacchante is in fact Diana herself; but of this Endymion knows nothing at all, and he deliberately—or rather with fatuous precipitancy—gives up the glorious goddess for the sentimental and beguiling wine-bibber.

From Life of John Keats by William Michael Rossetti

"John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say he hath a devil; the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, behold a glutton and a wine-bibber, &c."

From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer by Jonathan Swift

Not in the least; she did that kind of thing at the family table; besides, his worst enemy could not have called him a wine-bibber.

From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Bartholomew Sastrow

I wonder whether I have succeeded in making that wine-bibber go to bed supperless?

From The Pacha of Many Tales by Frederick Marryat


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