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Example sentences for "tippling"

Lexicographically close words:
tippets; tipping; tipple; tippler; tipplers; tips; tipsily; tipstaff; tipstaves; tipster
  1. Underground was a tippling sanctuary painted with drunken women tormenting the devil, and other somewhat quaint subjects.

  2. Many times some use is made thereof by tippling sweet-lipped bibbers, who out of it frame quills and pipes, through which they with their liquor-attractive breath suck up the new dainty wine from the bung of the barrel.

  3. So Panurge spent the night with tippling amongst the pages, and played away all the points of his breeches at primus secundus and at peck point, in French called La Vergette.

  4. We saw a knot of others, about a baker's dozen in number, tippling under an arbour.

  5. You see how, in several churches, the ancient laudable custom of tippling on account of the blessed saints O O, at Christmas, is come to nothing.

  6. A little rain allays a great deal of wind: long tippling breaks the thunder.

  7. From what you said but lately, it cannot be that you are given to tippling and to taverns.

  8. Indeed, the same kind of weakness that leads to a habit of tippling belongs often to the most charming and attractive natures, and the representation of the fact upon the stage is not in itself immoral.

  9. Now the immorality can not lie in the kindly feeling for the tippling vagabond, for that is natural and universal.

  10. Tippling iron-diggers disturb the night with noisy shouts when sober folk are a-bed, and the old honest look has disappeared for ever.

  11. And if they have any bargain to make, or any friend to meet, the alehouse or tavern must be the place, where tippling may be one part of their work.

  12. Thou seest that be they great or small, both soul and body are cast by tippling and drunkenness into greater danger, than thou art in at sea in a raging tempest.

  13. Having told you what tippling and drunkenness is, I shall briefly tell you their causes; but briefly, because you may gather most of them from what is said of the causes of gluttony.

  14. Thou offerest the creatures of God as a sacrifice to the devil, for drunkenness and tippling is his service.

  15. Another cause is, their not knowing that their excess and tippling is really a hurt or danger to their health.

  16. He will tempt you to drunkenness, and if he draw you but to tippling or time-wasting, he hath got something.

  17. Another cause of tippling is idleness, when they have not the constant employments of their callings to take them up.

  18. Footnote j: If any person (with a few particular exceptions) shall continue drinking or tippling in a public house, he shall forfeit three shillings and fourpence to the use of the poor, or be set in the stocks for four hours.

  19. I heartily wish that the laws against tippling and drunkenness[j] were more frequently put in execution.

  20. Not the least sufferer was the rector of Purleigh, for the Puritan Parliament ejected him from his living, on the charge "that he was a common frequenter of ale-houses, not only himself sitting dayly tippling there .

  21. Is it Bungay who is tippling away the five-pound note which we saw just now, or Shandon?

  22. This law contained a section which forbids any person licensed "to sell strong waters, or any private housekeeper to permit any person to sit drinking or tippling strong waters, wine or strong beer in their houses.

  23. Secondly and foremost, you should have added at the end of the philosophers chapter, the song of the Tippling Philosophers, which I send you here enclosed.

  24. The only health to people hale and sound, Is to have many a tippling health go round.

  25. It is at the family table, the first rudiments of intemperance are taught; the first examples set, and the first essays at tippling attempted.

  26. If the practice of tippling was confined to the lower order of society, it could not with any propriety be regarded as a national sin.

  27. The Commissioners of Customs also were instructed to cause their officers to make similar visits in order to prevent tippling amongst watermen,[129] whilst stage-plays and places of public amusement were vigorously proceeded against.

  28. Partly, also, to get her tippling husband away from old comrades and scenes, in the faint hope that she might rescue him from the great curse of his life.

  29. The wretched man had so muddled his brain by constant tippling that it had become a question at last whether he was quite responsible for his actions.

  30. When our countrymen sacrificed to their goddess [808]Vacuna, and sat tippling by their Vacunal fires.

  31. And these elevated sons of the lash are now augmented to fifteen, whom we may justly denominate a club of tippling deities, who preside over weddings, christenings, and pleasurable excursions.

  32. All appeared to enjoy the tippling vastly more than Hank himself.

  33. Like Carlyle, William Howitt was scandalised by the tippling habits of some of the literary men whom he met, and equally scandalised by their smoking habits.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tippling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bibulous; drunken; sottish