Drunkard

Examples

• Of all things I abhor a drunkard! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• From one year of war thou has become lazy, a drunkard and a coward. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Another drunkard shouted, 'Pull them out. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The man of whom I speak was a low pantomime actor; and, like many people of his class, an habitual drunkard. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Here,' bellowed the drunkard. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Then some drunkard yelled, 'Guillermo! Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• But Nicholas was neither an habitual drunkard nor a thorough infidel. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I hit my elbow into his belly and I said, 'Drunkard, whose chair is this? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He does not take a drink so that he may become an habitual drunkard, or be locked up in jail, or get into a brawl, or lose his job, or go insane. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The embarrassment from the liquor question which Woodrow Wilson feared does not arise because teetotaler and drunkard both become intoxicated when they discuss the saloon. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But the main reason lies in the one fact, which is notorious to everyone, and that is that Sir Eustace was a confirmed drunkard. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• But father never was a drunkard, though maybe, he's got worse for drink, now and then. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Yet, even he returned to the public-house on each occasion with the tenacity of a confirmed drunkard. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Pay no attention to what that drunkard says. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• His most inveterate enemy was a certain Anytus, whose son, a devoted disciple of Socrates, had become a hopeless drunkard. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• After the slaying in the _Ayuntamiento_ there was no more killing but we could not have a meeting that night because there were too many drunkards. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• They had run from drunkards. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• But it is the thing that drunkards and those who are truly mean or cruel ride until they die. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I am a warning to others, just as thieves and drunkards and gamblers are, she said in a low voice. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

Editor: Wendell