How To Use Drunkard In A Sentence

Tak the drunkard frae his whusky, the deboshed frae his debosh, the sweirer frae his aiths, the leear frae his lees; and giena ony o 'them ower muckle o' yer siller at ance, for fear 'at they grow fat an' kick an 'defy God and you. Robert Falconer
Naples was altogether different, but even here it must be admitted that her conception of deserving people was not at all that set forth in those novels of Dostoievski which Albertine had taken from my shelves and devoured, that is to say in the guise of wheedling parasites, thieves, drunkards, at one moment stupid, at another insolent, debauchees, at a pinch murderers. The Captive
Burn's suppers range from formal gatherings to uproariously informal rave-ups of drunkards and louts.
‘Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty’ (Proverbs 23: 20-21 KJV)
Drunkards think they have no problems, they don't worry about tomorrow, and they have no burden or cares.

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Vampyre umbral skulker until sunlight dwindles then bat becomes nocturnal prince throat ravager, claret quaffer, night wraith fearless charlatan, blood drunkard but at dawn's flushing kiss he yields to light Archive 2006-08-01
Backing out faster than a drunkard reversing his vehicle, cheeks aflame, Jody remembers the useful rule of always knocking before entering.
No man was ever _born_ a drunkard; nor are we born with a natural taste or thirst for alcoholic drinks, any more than we are born with an appetite for aloes, assafoetida, or any other drug or medicine. Select Temperance Tracts
He and his colleagues, he writes, were ‘permanent rangers on a temporary river,’ stuck on land wanted by nobody but the gun-toting drifters and weekend drunkards who squatted in the forest.
In addition to the drunkard and womanizer stereotypes, this version of "Deacon Jones" contains a direct reference to social class.
After nearly twenty years of being a drone, a drunkard and a boor, Stefan has become a philosopher. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
The man was a habitual drunkard, and was responsible for much of the trouble currently brewing in Virginia City.
He once pretended to be a drunkard holding a bottle to escape the attention of several people from a criminal gang.
Populated by a cast of country drunkards, bigamists, abused women, children and the inevitable dog, these are homespun morality tales.
A blush is the foolishest thing that can be, and betrays one more than a red nose does a drunkard; and yet I would not so wholly have lost them as some women that I know has, as much injury as they do me. Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
He was a carpenter after all, and I am told that carpenters in those days chopped their own trees and milled the wood by hand. and he was semitic. and he was called a glutton and a drunkard by his detractors, so maybe he had a belly and a red nose? Philocrites: Christmas loot report.
a reformed drunkard
In this category fall some of the adaptive activities of psychotics, autists, pariahs, outcasts, vagrants, vagabonds, tramps, chronic drunkards and drug addicts.
About once a year some pious public library banishes Huck Finn from its children's department, and on the same plea always — that Huck, the neglected and untaught son of a town drunkard, is given to lying, when in difficulty and hard pressed, and is therefore a bad example for young people, and a damager of their morals. Excerpt From ‘The Autobiography of Mark Twain’
He established and created an alguacil of the poor, not to harass them, but to examine them and see whether they really were so; for many a sturdy thief or drunkard goes about under cover of a make – believe crippled limb or a sham sore. Don Quixote
Nature pleaseth, and like a kind mother giveth us over unto satietie, if not unto wearisomnesse, unlesse we will peradventure say that the rule and bridle, which stayeth the drunkard before drunkennesse, the glutton before surfetting, and the letcher before the losing of his haire, be the enemies of our pleasures. Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian
And he was still riding the crest of a musical wave when, last Friday, his career was tragically cut short by a picnic table thrown from a roof in East London by a gang of immature drunkards.
The fat old drunkard was found asleep in a bower of roses by some of the servants of the palace.
The drunkard still lay unconscious on the cobbles.
I was getting a bit annoyed, knowing that he would turn up on the doorstep drunk and argumentative and I could think of a million and one things I would rather do than skirmish with a drunkard.
To straighten out the crooked road an English drunkard made.
They were raised by an obsessively house-proud mother and a violent drunkard of a father.
The state taxes booze so lightly that it's a wonder it hasn't become known as a mecca for drunkards. Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post
The perspirable matter which passes off from the skin becomes charged with the odor of alcohol in the drunkard, and is so far changed, in some cases, as to furnish evidence of the kind of spirit drank. Select Temperance Tracts
The drunkard tottered along the road.
Oh, well physicked, said the monk; a hundred devils leap into my body, if there be not more old drunkards than old physicians! Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
The Deputy mayor elect of Marlborough has called for action to prevent a local drunkard frightening people, including women and children.
Besides Mr. Oakhurst, who was known to be a coolly desperate man, and for whose intimidation the armed escort was intended, the expatriated party consisted of a young woman familiarly known as "The Duchess;" another who had won the title of "Mother Shipton;" and "Uncle Billy," a suspected, sluice-robber and confirmed drunkard. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers
That drunkard flung out the empty bottle.
There's an immodest bather, drunkards, a glutton (whose stomach does his talking for him), a fool, a woman, a monk, three choristers and a nun - all with a particular story to impart.
We find in drunkards that the blood vessels get into the same state as the wine bottles from the deposit of earthy matter which has no business to be deposited, and forms the 'beeswing' or crust in the blood vessels of the drunkard, in his eye and in all of the tissues of the body. The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation
I went to the door, but would go no farther; but in the ten minutes I stood there, I heard him in graphic and forcible terms depict the misery of the drunkard and the awful consequences of his conduct, both as they affected himself and those connected with him. Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6) Orators and Reformers
Let his confounded tenants, his rifle-associations, his drunkards, reclaimed and unreclaimed, get on as they liked.
The drunkard was turned out of the bar.
The pity that proves so possible and plentiful without that basis, is mere _ignavia_ and cowardly effeminacy; maudlin laxity of heart, grounded on blinkard dimness of head -- contemptible as a drunkard's tears. Latter-Day Pamphlets
The captain had sat somewhile with his face in his hands; now he rose mechanically, shaking and stumbling like a drunkard after a debauch. The Wrecker
On examining the lungs of the drunkard after death, they are frequently found adhering to the walls of the chest; hepatized, or affected with tubercles. Select Temperance Tracts
I refer downright beastly gluttons and drunkards to this; but indulgence short, _far short_, of this gross and really nasty drunkenness and gluttony is to be deprecated, and that, too, with the more earnestness because it is too often looked upon as being no crime at all, and as having nothing blameable in it; nay, there are many persons who _pride_ themselves on their refined taste in matters connected with eating and drinking: so far from being ashamed of employing their thoughts on the subject, it is their boast that they do it. Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject.
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Over time, however, the word became interchangeable with cad, and was liberally applied to high-born sophisticates who also happened to be black-hearted drunkards.
Playing the malevolent, abrasive junkie single mother of a missing kidnap victim, a slatternly, slack-jawed racist, Ryan adopted a drunkard's waxen pallor, honked up the full braying working-class Boston accent and, in those seven minutes, ran a gamut of emotions, from sullen resentment to inappropriate levity and a final descent into abject sobbing – a magnificent shipwreck of a performance. Amy Ryan: the Isabelle Huppert of Hollywood
Bill Styron certainly never had a reputation of being a drunkard—in fact it was a standing joke among friends like Willie Morris and Irwin Shaw that he "nursed" his drinks, while the rest of us guzzled. A Roaring Literary Lion
He is an habitual inebriate but not an habitual drunkard.
Envisioning a new medical speciality to address this ailment, the AACI built a network of private institutions to treat habitual drunkards.
A mere vagabond, idle person, hating labour, a drunkard, a sot, one of no spirit or forecast, delighting to live beggarly and carelessly, one content in no condition of life, either good or ill.
It's no that, however," said he, "that sud blind a man to facts; and it's true as ye stated it, Leddy Peebles, with yore usual clear-sightedness into a 'human affairs, that a man that's aye drunken, maun be held to be a drunkard; and a man that's aye spendin' whan he should be payin ', maun beware of folks ca'ing him, what ye ca'd him but noo. Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times
And drunkards must always appear in mustard and purple (though strangely some of the people paying for the pictures are depicted in mustard and purple).
Her mother insists that she goes to work, as Selvi's father is a drunkard.
After nearly twenty years of being a drone, a drunkard and a boor, Stefan has become a philosopher. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
With my arms thrown across Maram's and Master Juwain's shoulders, they dragged me back to camp as if I were a drunkard. THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART ONE OF THE EA CYCLE
Since the excessive consumption of alcoholic beverages is the state sport of Alaska-they'd challenge for the gold at the Drunkard Olympics, but'd lose major points to Ireland in the charm category-I've been pretty much teetotaling, out of sheer contrariness, not wanting to be just another shitface in the crowd. Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
Furthermore, rare are the religious bodies today that exclude thieves or greedy persons, or drunkards or revilers or robbers or even adulterers or prostitutes, or idolaters from the kingdom of God and the precincts of the sanctuary.
Hall Haddo, 'says he, sub voce Peden,' or Hell Haddo, as he was more justly to be called, a pokeful of old condemned errors and the filthy vile lusts of the flesh, a published whore-monger, a common gross drunkard, continually and godlessly scraping and skirling on Lay Morals
I think FilmDrunkard of the week must go to RoboPanda, for a series of gems, beginning with a Bruce Greenwood callback from the STRANGE WILDERNESS HAS A TRAILER thread: Did you know that: C.O.W: HETEROSEXUAL ASS PATS ALL AROUND
I discovered I had dropped off at one point when I was awoken by a bunch of rowdy drunkards, and then spent the rest of the night clock watching, urging the morning to come.
The drunkard tends to vulgarize
Ten went bankrupt or became broke, several were involved in financial scandals, two died in duels, one became a shattered drunkard, two "flittered" with treason, one was expelled from the Senate, one went mad, others quarreled bitterly among themselves about politics and interpreting the document they created, and most switched political sides for convenience in their subsequent quests for office. Reviewing Ferdinand Lundberg's "Cracks in the Constitution"
The same mixture, she notes, is often found in drunkards.
Captain Forsyth, Settlement Officer of Nimar, had a very unfavourable opinion of the Bhilalas, whom he described as proverbial for dishonesty in agricultural engagements and worse drunkards than any of the indigenous tribes. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
The demoralization of the narcotist is not, like that of the drunkard, rapid, violent, and palpable; but gradual, insidious, perceptible at first only to close observers and intimate friends. Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics
He paid as much attention to the floorboards or the tangle of buddleia in the yard below as he would to a woman's belly, Leigh Bowery's feminine bulk, Bruce Bernard's stoic drunkard's poise, Lord Goodman's vanity, Sue the Benefits Supervisor's affected boredom. Lucian Freud's perverse depictions of magnificent muck
Those fireworks never made it into the sky; the drunkards spilled beer on them and the fuses wouldn't light.
We lost a great deal of companionship when the late public-houses turned their lamps out, and when the potmen thrust the last brawling drunkards into the street; but stray vehicles and stray people were left us, after that. The Uncommercial Traveller
Reviewing his early work, he commented: ‘Not a few whose sins were of the most flagrant kind, drunkards, swearers, thieves, whoremongers, adulterers, have been brought from darkness unto light, and from the power of Satan unto God’.
No man is the worse for bowsing out his jib when off duty, though a drunkard's a thing I despise. Jack Tier; Or, the Florida Reef
In a secret corner of his soul, Jan still pines a little for "Elissa" aka The White Stone despite knowing for sure that at Alessandra's behest and to make him Hirzig after all, the assassin killed his beloved uncle Finn who served as both "older brother and father" figure instead of the drunkard and later rebel nobleman that was Allesandra's estranged husband. Archive 2010-04-01
I am like the drunkard who admires a temperate life, yet can't pass a ginshop. In the Midst of Alarms
He was a crony of Buckingham, with a reputation as a wit, debauchee, drunkard, and patron.
Villa -- a nondrinker despite his freewheeling sexual exploits -- called Huerta el borrachito ( "the little drunkard") while Huerta caustically referred to Villa as "the honorary general. The Mexican Revolution: a nation in flux - part 1 (1910-20)
He was an habitual drunkard, his greatest boast being that he had once been "teetotal" for From John O'Groats to Land's End
Playing the malevolent, abrasive junkie single mother of a missing kidnap victim, a slatternly, slack-jawed racist, Ryan adopted a drunkard's waxen pallor, honked up the full braying working-class Boston accent and, in those seven minutes, ran a gamut of emotions, from sullen resentment to inappropriate levity and a final descent into abject sobbing – a magnificent shipwreck of a performance. Amy Ryan: the Isabelle Huppert of Hollywood
I had become what is called a voluptuary; and to be a voluptuary is a physical condition like the condition of a victim of the morphine habit, of a drunkard, and of The Kreutzer Sonata
The drunkard fathers, violence, poverty, promiscuity, and lack of values and guidance leave these children directionless.
Nearby a drunkard, almost nose-to-nose with a pig, sprawls on the ground.
For winebibbing had not taken possession of her spirit, nor did the love of wine stimulate her to hate the truth, as it does too many, both male and female, who turn as sick at a hymn to sobriety as drunkards do at a draught of water. Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler
‘In Kerala, the journey has been a smooth one except on certain occasions when drunkards teased me for the reverse walking,’ he says.
Nor thieves , nor covetous , nor drunkards , nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
He did not understand this galoche having been the sign of a hosier, nor the purport of the earthenware cask -- a common cider-keg -- and, to be candid, the St. Peter was lamentable with his drunkard's physiognomy. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life
Is there any way to actually drink a reasonable amount of alcohol while remaining a drunkard in the eyes of society?
Later, I would make the Napoleon House around four for a game of chess or to play the old beatup upright piano in the very back room--by then drinking brandy alexanders--and New Orleans bars made the best brandy alexanders in the history of the drunkard's world in those days. Here We Go Again
He became a skid row type of drunkard.
the family rejoiced in the drunkard's reform
A drunkard twice found lying on the ground walked from court unpunished, after magistrates said they had little choice.
The same mixture, she notes, is often found in drunkards.
Are you so proud that you could swing a few punches in a bar full of drunkards?
a demigod was the face of a monkey, a drunkard, and a comedian, -- vain, full of changing desires, swollen with fat, notwithstanding his youth; besides, it was sickly and foul. Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero
Being an alcoholic, a pure drunkard, is more challenging than any job you have ever tried, and is not for the weak at heart.
I had become what is called a voluptuary; and to be a voluptuary is a physical condition like the condition of a victim of the morphine habit, of a drunkard, and of a smoker. The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories [a machine-readable transcription]
the thick speech of a drunkard
'Tis said that he is no drunkard, nor cudgeler, nor dallier with women, nor a liar, and that he is besides possessed of much property and very rich. First Love (Little Blue Book #1195) And Other Fascinating Stories of Spanish Life
The Victorian cells date back to the mid 19th Century when anyone, from drunkards to murderers, would have been locked away in dark, damp and cold conditions with only a concrete slab for a bed.
The pre-interval section of the play has Dostoevsky as a revolutionary, and then as a drunkard and gambler.
Equally revealing is Lung's denial that he made Lucy a drunkard.
I headed (rather late) to central London, where the streets were full of drunkards and the pavements covered by puddles that definitely weren't rain.
We hear of reformed drunkards, and reformed thieves; and _why may not a petulant temper be reformed_, but a system of total abstinence from all harsh, unkind moods and expressions? Sanders' Union Fourth Reader
Poets, drunkards, madmen, you know what Shakespeare said about lovers... "Bonny was impatient with Shakespeare. COME TO MECCA
When she opened the door to retrospection, which was not often, she remembered that the man who had stumbled upon the rich quartz vein in Yellow Dog Gulch could scarcely sign his name legibly to the papers recording his claim; that in those days there was no prophecy of the ambitious present in the man, half drunkard and half outlaw, whose name in the Yellow Dog district had been The Price
We lost a great deal of companionship when the late public-houses turned their lamps out, and when the potmen thrust the last brawling drunkards into the street; but stray vehicles and stray people were left us after that. The Uncommercial Traveller
It is characteristic that this man, who is probably a drunkard and shebeener and certainly in penury, refused the chance of a shilling because he felt that I did not like him. The Aran Islands
Walking like a drunkard, Elizabeth made her way to her door and fumbled with the lock on the doorknob while vaguely wondering why the heck it was locked in the first place.
To his right a drunkard with a grease-clogged beard reeled about with a woman in an even more incapacitated state clinging to his arm. SACRAMENT
No doubt there are extremists - and drunkards - here who deserve the label.
The drunkard becomes a moral enthusiast as he tells the truth about the amorist, and the amorist as he tells the truth about the sot.
As a '49er, Christman said, he was surrounded "by the offscourings and scum of society" and by "more gamblers, more drunkards, more ugly, bad women, and larger lumps of gold" than "any other place of similar dimensions within Uncle Sam's dominions. Five Best: Susan J. Matt
Intemperance is nine-tenths the cause of murder, criminality and pauperism, the insanity of powerful minds -- minds which might have moulded and shaped the opinions of nations -- and could we but redeem the financial results of this black demon, and call the slumbering drunkards from their graves, we might repeople an empty world, make states, build kingdoms, erect religious and social institutions, and dedicate them to the honor and glory of God. History of the First African Baptist Church, From its Organization, January 20th, 1788, to July 1st, 1888. Including the Centennial Celebration, Addresses, Sermons, Etc.
The women drunkards were called poivrottes which meant female rummies. Book Excerpt: ‘A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition’
They were a queer folk, silent and self-contained, and keeping very much to themselves - odd-tempered at times - decent on the whole, for they never produced a drunkard - wonderful horse-breakers and horse-copers and dog - trainers and poachers - relics of an earlier England.
But he would not listen to the idea of sparing anybody; he declared he must and would bring the case to court at once, for, he said, your brother was a drunkard and a debt-contractor. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig
For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
He ended with two pictures: a drunkard's house and family, and a sober man's; both so true and dramatic in all their details that the wives fell all to "ohing" and "ahing," and "Eh, but that is a true word. The Cloister and the Hearth
The father remained the same — poorer, shabbier, and more dissolute – looking, but the same confirmed and irreclaimable drunkard. Sketches by Boz
That drunkard flung out the empty bottle.
Lots and lots of stout-hearted drunkards got blitzed on mead thousands of years before beer or grain alcohol appeared on the scene.
She says up to 17 prisoners, ranging from murderers to drunkards, are held in the lock-up for weeks at a time in cramped conditions and without access to proper hygiene and fresh air.
There would invariably be a screaming woman, a person bent double with age and a drunkard in every performance.
Cronstadt, town of drunkards and of miracle-workers _par excellence_, boasted about two hundred _staretz_. Modern Saints and Seers
He became a skid row type of drunkard.
Farnol's usual spunky heroine is on the run from the rakehell and drunkard Lord Barrasdale, who would marry her by force to claim her lands.
Nearby a drunkard, almost nose-to-nose with a pig, sprawls on the ground.
Maybe one day I'll become a big drunkard, and you'll have tons to talk about.
Mr. Tomlinson has already been smeared as unemployed, a drunkard, homeless and abandoner of his family. London, England. 2009.
Why did the privileged first son of a wealthy dynasty become a drunkard and hell-raiser in the first place?
Though every lover of tobacco is not a slave to rum, yet _almost every drunkard is a slave to tobacco_; and this is indirect evidence that the habits are in a manner associated, or have a sort of natural affinity. A Dissertation on the Medical Properties and Injurious Effects of the Habitual Use of Tobacco
It constitutes an artificial pleasure more than a natural need: this thirst is inextinguishable, because the drinks one takes to appease it have the unfailing effect of causing it to arise anew; this thirst, which ends up becoming habitual, makes for the drunkards of all countries; and it almost always happens that the impotation ceases only when the liquor is lacking, or when it has vanquished the drinker and put him out of action. Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire
So something ‘Irish’ - a quick-tempered but romantic drunkard, or a wistful tootle of the uillean pipes - is not necessarily put there to say something about Ireland, but to say something about America.
He describes the Reformers under siege at St Andrews Castle as a ‘sinister collection of drunkards, debauchees, and religious maniacs’.
The drunkard tottered along the road.
There's an immodest bather, drunkards, a glutton (whose stomach does his talking for him), a fool, a woman, a monk, three choristers and a nun - all with a particular story to impart.

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