inebriate

The cup that cheers but not inebriates, as the old saying has it.

"Making television before an audience while preparing food is not an occupation for the inebriate," he said.

As far as inebriates go, that one appeared to be pretty harmless.

Which seemed wise, given that his father's inebriate advice and observations were usually suspect.

They hadn't accepted inebriates at the old asylum in Pennsylvania.

For an inebriate, he appeared to be remarkably healthy.

And he still writes about the same endearing inebriates.

Counsel he asked of me, and I was silent, Because his words appeared inebriate.

The officer, doggedly trying to do his duty, had a wagon full of inebriates.

An incoming inebriate pays $160, plus room and board, must stay for 31 days.

The inebriate was heavier than his frame would suggest; there must be solid muscle behind it.

In a play that is essentially about getting drunk, she is a very funny inebriate.

They bade goodnight to Joe and left him struggling with the two inebriates.

The murmur was his own voice, inebriate and slurred.

However, I'm pretty sure there were seats available elsewhere, including one next to the inebriate who initially took issue with my bike's placement.

The day's recurring joke was about the imaginary inebriate who went to pick up his six-pack.

They were known locally as the "Nibs", short for Inebriates.

After taking a few steps, one of the many inebriates now sprinkled through the crowd stumbled in front of her.

As he walked along, the inebriate, whose gait was at first unsteady, recovered his equilibrium and required less help.

An enabling change to the Inebriates Act 1879.

He is now a boring inebriate and his response to being asked to leave is, 'We're married.

He raised his glass towards the inebriate shopkeeper.

The inebriate throngs were gone at last.

It was more like a soccer match attended by a club of misanthropic inebriates".

They had a conversation of sorts with the two inebriates who had laughed at Joe's opening remarks to them.

Little by little Jesus' words penetrated him, lightly inebriating his mind.

The fever has evaporated, but it was inebriating while it lasted.

The anticipation of exploring her bodily treasures was inebriating.

Such feats can be attributed to his large size, which meant it took higher amounts of alcohol to inebriate him.

Sergei, our interpreter, had been known to get so hopelessly inebriate as to be incapable of speech, let alone translation.

Mixed with surplus adrenalin, even coffee can be inebriating so the revellers became merry, very quickly.

The prospect is inebriating.

This work, called "The Vintage," is decorously inebriate, a vinous riot of little cupids.

That included supplying Falernian to those who judged drink purely by its capacity to inebriate. '

At first they hide and crawl about, but growing hungry partake of some "monstrous coralline growths" of fungus that inebriate them.

Pagans are depicted as above all things inebriate and lawless, whereas they were above all things reasonable and respectable.

Cioculescu discussed his "impressive erudition", but argued that it was "occasionally plethoric, poetically inebriating itself through abuse".

Medicines made with Ledebouria cooperi and Phygelius capensis are used to inebriate boys during initiation ceremonies.

Dumézil describes wine as a "kingly" drink with the power to inebriate and exhilarate, analogous to the Vedic Soma.

Writing in Granta, the British quarterly, he said the crowds in Berlin, Prague and Budapest were "not inebriate with some abstract passion for freedom, for social justice."

"If," thought I, "these are but artful devices to inebriate and fool my own imagination, my imagination is on its guard, and reason shall not, this time, sleep at her post!"

It was a lavish pyre of molten, inebriating java and then, when he swung around to where I was sitting, I turned and asked the climactic question: "Is it decaf?"

CANTO XXIX SO were mine eyes inebriate with view Of the vast multitude, whom various wounds Disfigur'd, that they long'd to stay and weep.

What brings comfort, costs nothing, doesn't inebriate or cause cancer, has no calories and is as handy as your thumb (Hers: "Creature Comfort," by Meg Wolitzer, Nov. 5)?

From out of pubs with names like Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese wafted the multitudinous smells of cheap sandwiches, greasy fried potatoes, and enough alcohol to inebriate several herds of elephants.

Cioculescu acknowledged Eliade's "impressive erudition" and status as "column leader" of a generation concerned with Romanian Orthodox spirituality and mysticism, but contended that Eliade's manner was "occasionally plethoric, poetically inebriating itself through abuse".

When the spots are mistakenly broadcast, Jerry is forced to put VIP into production with the help of an oddball scientist (Jack Kruschen), who invents candy that "enters the bloodstream as pure alcohol," instantly inebriating anyone who eats it.

Of the dozen people in the hut reserved for the drinking of kava, a nonalcoholic but slightly inebriating drink made from the dried root of a pepper plant, he was the only one with his own cup, a half of a coconut shell, which he spun for fun.