wine-bibber

Example Sentences

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If Jesus had not come eating and drinking, He could not have been called gluttonous and a wine-bibber.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII by Maclaren, Alexander

In Matthew, Jesus is depicted as a glutton and a wine-bibber.

From The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal by Saltus, Edgar

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

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

From The Pacha of Many Tales by Marryat, Frederick

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