wine-bibber

Example Sentences

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No wonder then that his sociable friend on his right, seeing how his guest held his tankard, and refused every dish which he offered him, took him for an incorrigible wine-bibber.

From The Banished A Swabian Historical Tale. In Three Volumes. by Hauff, Wilhelm

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they said, ‘Behold a gluttonous man and a wine-bibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.’

From The Gospel of the Pentateuch by Kingsley, Charles

He is not a wine-bibber, and he is not a total abstainer.

From Horace and His Influence by Showerman, Grant

I acquired no vices, though there were plenty to be got, was not a wine-bibber, a spendthrift, nor a rake.

From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

And the beginning of Flush of Gold is the old French wine-bibber, for he was the father of Marie Chauvet, and Marie Chauvet was the Flush of Gold. 

From Lost Face by London, Jack