wine-bibber
Example Sentences
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She had never represented any of her saints as a wine-bibber, a gross beef-eater, or a narrow-headed, crafty, cringing creature.
From Half a Century by Swisshelm, Jane Grey Cannon
The Son of Man Eating and drinking cometh, and ye say: Behold a gluttonous man, and a wine-bibber; Behold a friend of publicans and sinners!
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
There is nothing in this text for the consolation of the wine-bibber.
From The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Orr, Charles Ebert
Yes; Letitia is what you call a flesh-eater and wine-bibber like myself.
From Love's Usuries by Creswicke, Louis
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 Sastrow, Bartholomew
