Word: drunk
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...will not consent at first, but finally yields on condition that he be allowed to marry Genevote. To this La Tremblaye agrees, and to celebrate the marriage Granger tells Corbineli, Charlot Granger's servant, to arrange a comedy for the celebration. Corbineli is also told to make Charlot Granger drunk in order to keep him out of the way until Genevote and Granger are married. Corbineli, who is still in league with his young master, arranges a plot by which Charlot is to feign death, as though he had been killed in a drunken brawl. Genevote is to agree...
...commission upon whose report he is to say to England: "Back down or fight." Mr. Olney adds a letter to Lord Salisbury, saying that England's presence on this continent is a menace and an offence. Congress and a large part of our newspapers and people thereupon go fighting-drunk; and Mr. Roosevelt writes you a letter to call any of us who may have presumed to beg our congressmen to slow-up if they can, "betrayers" of our native land. We are evidently guilty of lese-majeste in Mr. Roosevelt's eyes; and though a mad president...
...necessary once again to call attentention to a wrong which, even if nothing had been said on the subject, any manliness or sense of dignity would have prevented. I refer to the attempts made by men, not always freshmen I am sorry to say, to get John the Orangeman drunk...
...work. He married a widow named Stretch, who soon died, giving him thus the opportunity of marrying again, in 1707. The letters which he wrote to his second wife form the most interesting account we have of him. They were written at all times, when at his business, when drunk, when penitent or when in the lockup, where he sometimes found himself. They are all good humoured and natural and he comes out, strange to say, a nobler fellow for their publication...
...that if a man is to pose as a preacher in abstinence he at least must be an abstainer himself. Sixty years ago it was the custom to drink free y at meeting of nearly every sort and it was no disgrace for a young man to be seen drunk, yet how different it is at the present time. A man is ashamed of himself if found intoxicated...