over-drank

Updated: May 27, 2025

'They habitually over-ate and over-drank themselves. But Pepys gives us the menu of one of his own entertainments. I've marked it somewhere. Yes, here it is. 'Good gracious! I told you that I associated him with indigestion. 'He did them pretty well that time. 'Who cooked all this? 'The wife helped in those days. 'No wonder she died at twenty-nine. Poor dear!

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus