habitual drunkard

"Are any of you common gamblers or habitual drunkards?"

Have you ever been a habitual drunkard?

As the offender had often no means to pay, repeated terms of imprisonment was the inevitable result for habitual drunkards.

Of those who violated the revelation, it was mainly habitual drunkards that were excluded from the temple.

Even habitual drunkards liked beds and showers.

Alcoholic beverages were available mostly by the glass or in gallon jugs, neither of which was convenient for habitual drunkards.

'The man of whom I speak was a low pantomime actor; and, like many people of his class, an habitual drunkard.

Legree was not an habitual drunkard.

An autopsy was to be made today, but their prosector was a habitual drunkard and you never could tell how careful he would be.

One man was called a 'worthless nonentity,' by Corder, another 'a habitual drunkard.'

Pieback would be written off as an habitual drunkard in poor health who died in his seep in a jail cell.

Meanwhile, Shankar, Rana's old servant, a habitual drunkard goes to the mansion to clean it up.

A habitual drunkard, the Captain terrorizes the customers of the Benbow with his swearing, singing and general bullying.

The other phase of the death-road was that of the habitual drunkards, who had a way of turning up their toes without apparent provocation.

Her husband squandered all his wealth and despite her best attempts of rehabilitating and reforming him, became a habitual drunkard.

In his essays he forcibly described the physical dangers of drunkenness, and the necessity of coercing habitual drunkards by law.

Richarn was an habitual drunkard, but he had his good points: he was honest, and much attached to both master and mistress.

But the German sterilization laws include habitual drunkards, and it is an amusing thought that had they existed in pre-Hitler Austria, Hitler himself would never have been born!

But he might, on the other hand, have had too much sense to do so; for in her time with him he had been given to bouts only, and was not a habitual drunkard.

In the first of these lectures, he noted that there were "105 habitual drunkards out of a population of 1070 male adults" in East Gwillimbury and Whitchurch townships.

Vassily was no convicted criminal, nor habitual drunkard, nor spendthrift nor berserker; he was just a bachelor officer, a conscientious, duty-minded orbital traffic controller, an ordinary honest man.

Mini is a 10-year old school girl from a middle-class family whose father is a habitual drunkard who beats up his wife as a rule and throws tantrums into the early hours of the morning.

In the 17th century, a juice extracted from acorns was administered to habitual drunkards to cure them of their condition or else to give them the strength to resist another bout of drinking.

Among the diverse functions acquired from the justices were inspection of gas meters, regulation of explosive materials, weights and measures, habitual drunkards, control of wild birds and providing visitors to asylums.

The Habitual Drunkards Act of 1879 did allow authorities to establish a retreat for inebriates but payment by the inmate was required, thus excluding those working-class drunkards most at risk and with the least financial support.