wine-bibber
Example Sentences
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There is nothing in this text for the consolation of the wine-bibber.
From The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Charles Ebert Orr
I have heard that he is a glutton and a wine-bibber.
From Mary Magdalen by Edgar Saltus
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 Jack London
Prince Hal said of the jolly wine-bibber, Jack, that “he could have better spared a better man!”
From Rattlin the Reefer by Frederick Marryat
Remember your Lord, he was familiar with publicans and sinners to a proverb; "Behold a gluttonous man, and a wine-bibber, a friend of publicans and sinners;" Matt. xi.
From The Jerusalem Sinner Saved; or, Good News for the Vilest of Men by John Bunyan
