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'You must keep wine and spirits away from him, except in extreme moderation. 'What! speak to the butler? Tell him that my husband is a drunkard? 'You need not go quite so far as that, but it will be necessary to cut off the supplies somehow, and to substitute a nourishing diet for stimulants. 'Yes, if he could eat: but he has no appetite he eats hardly anything.
After taking a long draught, he continued, while the stranger closely watched him: "Yes, he's here; and his feet must be rather cold, for he's been waiting about the mountains ever since sunset, with his guards and our comrades. Thou knowest our bandoleros, the true contrabandistas?" "Ah! and what do they hunt?" said Jacques. "Ah, that's the joke!" answered the drunkard.
A sleepless night Try to write on the following day but fail My friends consult with the officers of the institution I am discharged Go to Indianapolis and get drunk My wanderings and horrible sufferings Alcohol The tyrant whom all should slay What is lost by the drunkard Is anything gained by the use of liquor?
Lichonin stopped in the middle of the room and with an intensified avidity heard the quiet, sleeping breathing of Liubka. His lips became so hot and dry that he had to lick them incessantly. His knees began to tremble. "Ask if she needs anything," suddenly darted through his head. Like a drunkard, breathing hard, with mouth open, staggering on his shaking legs, he walked up to the bed.
Born in the slums, he sold matches at seven years of age; at eight he was in an industrial school; his father was dead, his mother a drunkard; home he had none! Leaving school at sixteen he became first a gardener's assistant, then a gentleman's servant; in this occupation he saved some money with which he apprenticed himself to french polishing.
That, however, was hardly the worst of it; for I soon discovered that Lemaitre, the skipper of this precious craft in which such doings were permitted, was a drunkard; for every night, at about nine o'clock, I used to hear him come below, and order out the rum and water; after which he and Francois, or the second mate, according to whose watch below it happened to be, would sit for about an hour, drinking one against the other, until the language of both became incoherent, when the pair of them would stagger and stumble off to their respective staterooms.
By drunkard is meant a person who is a notorious and habitual sot. Many persons who are habitually intemperate do not get this name even now; much less would they have done so twenty-five or thirty years ago.
"I s'pose I'm prejudiced; but I do hate a drunkard; and when I see one of 'em makin' up to a girl, I want to go to her, and tell her she'd better take a real tiger out the show, at once."
Wynne was a gardener as well as an organist, and had gardens both in the front and at the back of his cottage, which was surrounded by fruit-trees. Drunkard as he was, his two passions, music and gardening, saved him from absolute degradation and ruin.
Among others it was the means of converting a young man who was a notorious drunkard, and who was just again on his way to a public house, when an acquaintance of his met him, and asked him to go with him to hear a foreigner preach.
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