They were always plotting, but at the same time also always letting out their secret--a tippler talking in his cups; an officer confiding intelligence to his sweetheart; a bungling conspirator boasting in very big words.
An insatiable tippler knocks at the closed door of the tavern, and is answered by the hostess with a pailful of water emptied upon his head from a window above.
The confounded tippler was as well as well could be.
One day, in 1853, Alfred de Musset, who then had become a confirmed tippler of absinthe, called on M.
One uses tobacco, as thetippler does his rum, as an antidote against a damp atmosphere.
Oui," replied the officer, solemnly, though the grateful acknowledgments of the juvenile tippler were lost upon him, except so far as he could interpret them by the motions of the speaker.
The young tippler handed the half-franc piece to the waiter, who bowed, scraped, flourished his napkin, and fled.
To me the sight was painful, for I saw that this youthful tippler was on dangerous ground.
The tippler was sober, because he had neither rum nor money.
As the tipplercould not obtain the liquor for a spree, he had become sober.
Captain Chinks, as the tippler entered the saloon.
The pilferer becomes a successful tradesman in a large and questionable way; the tipplerfinds himself sober and attended by the daughter of his heart's desire; various married folk get re-sorted; and so forth.
I ran, followed by a dozen idlers, to the stern of the boat, and presently the helpless tippler appeared again.
Then the awkward fact that when he did come he would be recognized, by my friends, as the tippler who had fallen overboard, would be disclosed; and I blamed myself for what I had said to them.
Tippler was a brave and kind–hearted man; but he thought of his wife and children, and leaped into the boat.
