"As a matter of fact they brought it in 'suicide during temporary insanity, brought on by excessive drinking,' and that got me over the difficulty.

Steady, moderate drinking will often accomplish the work.

"Actually, there was very little drinking in baseball in those days.

The first time Sadie and Rosie allowed themselves to be persuaded to stay at Silver's after midnight they were rather horrified by the abandoned character of the dancing, the reckless drinking, and the fighting which resulted in several men being thrown out.

BRINKLEY, ROBERT C. Responsible drinking; a discreet inquiry and a modest proposal.

Steady, moderate drinking will often accomplish the work.

The customers of the bar were poor Germans accustomed to endless drinking.

I wasn't responsible for her eternal drinking.

I fear it would not be difficult to prove that female home-drinking has been fostered by the grocers' wine and spirit licences.

Why need I mention your preparations for banquets, why your frantic hard-drinking?

'They would sometimes cast their Nets towards the right Paths to catch the Stragglers, whose Eyes for want of frequent drinking at the Brook that ran by them grew dim, whereby they lost their way; these would sometimes very narrowly miss being catched away, but I could not hear whether any of these had ever been so unfortunate, that had been before very hearty in the strait Paths.

Those have been called the days of heroic drinking.

Then there is that horrible drinking.

"Not he, not he," exclaimed the disconsolate consort of the good-man; "he has not the heart to get himself courageous, in loyal drinking, on such an occasion as a merry-making on account of his Majesty's glory; he was a man altogether for work; and it is chiefly for his hard labour that I have reason to complain.

He had just fallen down a stairway while drunk, and injured himself severely, so that our official drinking was limited.

She was popularred-cheeked, oversized, hard-drinking, and tolerant.

The abject reverence of their attitudes, the stand of flaming and guttering candles, the worship and kissing of the rough wet stones, the pious drinking of the cistern's water as they came awaya few pausing to buy some "blest" token of their visit at the adjacent shopand the solemn silence that reigned over all, were the chief features that made the scene one from which we were only too glad to turn away.

Consequently, I was not to be taken in like Jackson by made-up faces, trashy pictures, drawling and lounging and strutting and tailoring, drawing-room singing and drawing-room dancing, any more than by bad ventilation and unwholesome hours and food, not to mention polite dram drinking, and the round of cruelties they call sport.

So there was much preparatory drinking amongst the officers, (yet I say it not in slander, for many were brave enough for any deed, and drank before battle only because they drank always,)and less amongst the men solely because spirits had become scarce around Rivas, and dear; and there were very few, truly, who had not ceased long since to carry coin in their pockets.

I bantered this man in a friendly way about secret drinking and the confessional and women and paradise, causing uproarious delight among the bystanders.

And if the sky had fallen, Andrew declared, he could have been no more surprised than he was when he found himself invited with great ceremony to a stately tea-drinking at the house of the owner of the Sabrina.

In certain spots there is sly grog-selling with its concomitants of expense, stealthy drinking, and perjury.

He went to work instantly when he entered the big back room of the hotel which was used for cards and surreptitious drinking.

It is true, the sweet, cool, grateful draught, that was to be got from the gushing spring, must be forgotten; but rain-water collected in clean rock, and preserved in well-sweetened casks, was very tolerable drinking for seamen.

When the press called upon him for immediate supply, he was often found debauching himself at a tavern, and by excessive drinking unable to perform his engagements with the public, by which no doubt the work considerably suffered.