bibulous

How To Use bibulous In A Sentence

• There is an experiment, which seems to evince this venous absorption, which consists in the external application of a stimulus to the lips, as of vinegar, by which they become instantly pale; that is, the bibulous mouths of the veins by this stimulus are excited to absorb the blood faster, than it can be supplied by the usual arterial exertion. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
• A furious Donovan called off the fox project, but it lived on, if only at bibulous OSS gatherings. A Covert Affair
• He was already mildly drunk, and Amy knew from experience that it would be a long, bibulous evening. THE WHITE DOVE
• A middle-aged son of the General, a physician by profession, being bibulously inclined, on being informed of his father's death, broke out into uncontrollable and hysterical fit of weeping.
• _calabogus_ in Newfoundland, and -- soda-water in the United States, I desired to complete the bibulous cosmos, in which _koumiss_ was still lacking. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865
• Then there are the characters who inhabit the pages, such as the bibulous hack Lunchtime O'Booze and Glenda Slag, a parody of many a female newspaper columnist whose opinions are as fickle and self-contradictory as her readers'. Britain's All-Seeing Private Eye
• So, come the denouement, their table was very bibulous and merry while everyone else was in a state of nervy misery.
• The profitability of corn whiskey, heavy frontier drinking, the spread of saloons in cities, and the immigration of beer-drinking and whiskey-swilling foreigners all encouraged the nation's bibulous tendencies.
• The only nod to the bibulous was the Toll House Cocktail, a house-special from the same (now long-gone) Whitman, Mass., inn famous for its chocolate-chip cookies. Cranberry Cocktail Confusion
• She evokes a broadcasting company that was different from that of today, full of stuffed shirts and bibulous eccentrics.