drunkardness

Example Sentences

• "Breathen^([sic – meaning Brethren]) John Brunk Juner and Wilson Bomer gave the Church satisfaction for being over taken^([sic]) in drunkardness"
• "I have toiled through twenty years more—I have lived a life of the most appalling suffering and misery—and now whilst I totter on the brink of eternity, I am still a drunkard! If ever a human being has suffered for the crime of drunkardness, that being am I."
• "Yet, never did I in my drunkardness— […] / While my poor post of a husband held a horse, / Or sponged a mule, or wagon, for a drink,— / Smother a child in bed, or let one tumble / Into a tub and drown, as you did, after / Returning home from church, where, in the hymning, / You and your old hag mother had been steepling / On either side of that black-whiskered villain."
• "A large number of arrests for drunkardness and other disorder,^([sic]) were made during the Christmas week, but only in communities where whisky was sold."
• "Even if the city did take the shape of a distorted diabolical ogre unleashing enticement and temptation to drunkardness, sin and lust, at the same time it took the shape of a generous, beautiful maiden offering education and culture, hospitals and libraries, and churches for the administering of Sacraments and the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass."
• "People in Europe were already following the Roman celebration of Saturnalia, which took place in December just like de Bacchanal celebration. This was a time of wild revelry, drunkardness, orgies, and merrymaking."