bibulous

How To Use bibulous In A Sentence

• There is an experiment, which seems to evince this venous absorption, which consists in the external application of a stimulus to the lips, as of vinegar, by which they become instantly pale; that is, the bibulous mouths of the veins by this stimulus are excited to absorb the blood faster, than it can be supplied by the usual arterial exertion. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
• Why, if Ponce de Leon had found the fountain of youth and drunk of it as bibulously as we are apt to guzzle the cup of achievement, he would not only have arrested the forward march of time, but would have over-reached himself and slipped backward through the years of his age to become a chronic infant in arms. The Joyful Heart
• New defections, followed by bibulous celebrations in the Palais Royal, were reported daily.
• Used in ceramic tile, Mosaic facing juncture, because not bibulous, winter won't frozen, expansion, can prevent ceramic tile, Mosaic of spalling.
• A night's lodging cost five dollars for supper, five for breakfast, and five for a bed, and if the soldiers were any ways bibulously inclined and wished an "eye opener" in the morning or a "night cap" at supper time, that was five dollars additional for each drink. History of Kershaw's Brigade
• Emerging after a bibulous evening, befuddled guests went to recover their coats, only to discover that some of them had ‘walked’.
• He lumbered to a halt, resignation stamped plainly on his bibulous features.
• Sergeant Reed is bibulously on the job again, drinking his wily way through another murder investigation.
• Perhaps Shakespeare had particular reason when, in 1598, he had the bibulous Sir John Falstaff complain so bitterly on the subject of ‘thin potations’.
• He was raucous, bibulous, lecherous and with a genius for showing an equal contempt for the common man and those in power. Simon Jenkins: Half a Century After Mencken's Death, Opinion Is What is Riding High