bibbing

You will find him wine-bibbing or in the company of nameless women.

Chapter 17 2010

Charles H. Baker Jr., in his indispensable treatise on dispensables, "The Gentleman's Companion," describes the effects of regular absinthe-bibbing: "It does nibble the keen edge off the brain until a man becomes a sorry sort of thing; aimless, listless, and generally -- shockingly -- lacking."

Sampling Absinthe's Dubious Charms 2009

The Infidels passed that night in joy and jubilee and wine bibbing; and, as soon as it was dawn, the two armies drew out with the swart of spear and the blanch of blade.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The fourth behest, O my son, is Beware of wine-bibbing, for wine is the head of all frowardness and a fine solvent of human wits.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

An athlete caught bibbing had to make a sacrifice, pour some sacramental wine on the ground, and pay a fine -- "half to Apollo and half to the informer."

An Olympic Cocktail 2008

Beware of wine-bibbing, for drink is the root of all evil: it doeth away the reason and bringeth to contempt whoso useth it; and how well saith the poet,

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

And indeed one may fairly ask how, on such a system of common meals, it would be possible for any one to ruin either himself or his family either through gluttony or wine-bibbing.

The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians 2007

That was an age in which wine-bibbing was more common than in our politer time; and, especially since the arrival of General

The Virginians 2006

This proceedeth from your bibbing and swilling yesternight, which (as it seemeth) maketh you to walke about the roome in your sleepe, dreaming of wonders in the night season: it were no great sinne if you brake your neck, to teach you keepe a fairer quarter; and how commeth it to passe, that Signior Panuccio could not keepe himselfe in his owne bed?

The Decameron 2004

The late earl had chosen to live in London all his life, and had sunk down to be the toadying friend, or perhaps I should more properly say the bullied flunky, of a sensual, wine-bibbing, gluttonous — — king.

Castle Richmond 2004