Word: wineing
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...writer makes no reference to the "wine-clubs" which, until within a few years, were very popular at both the universities. He thinks there is much more drunkenness and licentiousness at Cambridge and Oxford than among an equal number of American students...
...trade is still. All is silent. But bark! From yonder splendid mansion peal forth the strains of revelry and mirth. It is the birthday of the fair young heiress, Adelia De Bray. Within is the gay music of the dance, the whirling figures of ravishing beauties, and the sparkling wine. Amidst all the joyous mirth moves Adelia the admired of all admirers. Wearied with constant flattery, she seeks, for a moment, the pure air of the outer heavens; and, as she gazes at the silver crescent above, her thoughts wander far away to another hemisphere, and she murmurs softly, "Clarence...
...worthy of sweet wine and flowers...
Term-bills did not meet with prompt payment on all occasions; the money forwarded by the fond parent "was often spent on wine parties, gambling, or immoralities still worse, and in defiance of the law," and as the Athenians had not discovered the device of requiring a bond, the bursars of those days threatened in vain...
Athens was always more popular with students than was Rome, where the college officers were required to look after the behavior of students in society, to keep them from a too frequent attendance at the theatre or at wine parties. The authorities of Rome publicly whipped a student offending in any of those points; but the city of Athens furnished the theatre tickets...