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  • I can no more resist a book than a gambler can resist a wager or an ivrogne his bottle.

    Book of Emblems Young Geoffrion 2009

  • I can no more resist a book than a gambler can resist a wager or an ivrogne his bottle.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Young Geoffrion 2009

  • Nous sommes les Cadets de Gasgogne, rhymes with ivrogne and sans vergogne ....

    Three Soldiers John Dos Passos 1933

  • Un pied chausse, et puis, l'autre nu, File a la maison, ivrogne!

    Folk Songs of French Canada 1929

  • J'y ai vu qu'on y traite de petits esprits les etrangers qui sont etonnes que dans les pieces de ce grand Shakespeare un senateur romain fasse le bouffon; et gu'un roi paraisse sur le theatre en ivrogne.

    Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • C'est un ex-capucin de Rouen, nommé jadis Maubert, fripon, espion, escroc, menteur et ivrogne, ayant tous les talens de moinerie, qui a composé cet impertinent ouvrage. "

    Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica James Boswell 1767

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  • Oh! ne croyez pas que vous ayez affaire à un ivrogne!…

    Jules Verne, Le Sphinx des glaces

    February 20, 2009

  • French for drunkard

    February 20, 2009