wine-bibber
Example Sentences
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Very good wine," said Father Brown, gravely lifting his glass, "but, as you see, a very bad wine-bibber.
From The Wisdom of Father Brown by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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
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
The bigot, the deb- auchee, the hypocrite, called Jesus a glutton and a wine-bibber.
From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Eddy, Mary Baker
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 Rossetti, William Michael
