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1  You ought to stop drinking if you can't control yourself.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 25
2  The bitterness of it was the daily food and drink of Jurgis.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11
3  Then he lay for hours, just gazing and drinking in joy; until at last he felt sleepy, and lay down in the shade of a bush.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
4  It would be pleasant to record that he swore off drinking immediately, and all the rest of his bad habits with it; but that would hardly be exact.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 30
5  The law forbade Sunday drinking; and this had delivered the saloon-keepers into the hands of the police, and made an alliance between them necessary.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 25
6  Others, who have been drinking still more, wander about the room, bumping into everything; some are in groups of two or three, singing, each group its own song.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
7  He was drinking, and developing a villainous temper, and he stormed and cursed and raged at his men, and drove them until they were ready to drop with exhaustion.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26
8  He would agree to serve a certain quality at a certain price, and when the time came you and your friends would be drinking some horrible poison that could not be described.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
9  Of course it had not the least effect, except upon a few roaches which had the misfortune to drink water after eating it, and so got their inwards set in a coating of plaster of Paris.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
10  If you went in not intending to drink, you would be put out in no time, and if you were slow about going, like as not you would get your head split open with a beer bottle in the bargain.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
11  He never would take but the one drink at noontime; and so he got the reputation of being a surly fellow, and was not quite welcome at the saloons, and had to drift about from one to another.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
12  Mrs. Olszewski, who lived next door, and had a husband who was a skilled cattle butcher, but a drinking man, gave nearly half a dollar, enough to raise the whole sum to a dollar and a quarter.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
13  He had gone all to ruin with the drink, however, and lost his power; one of his sons, who was a good man, had kept him and the family up for a year or two, but then he had got sick with consumption.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
14  Among the people Jurgis lived with now money was valued according to an entirely different standard from that of the people of Packingtown; yet, strange as it may seem, he did a great deal less drinking than he had as a workingman.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 25
15  It was a struggle for life with her; she was not afraid that Jurgis would go on drinking, for he had no money for that, but she was wild with dread at the thought that he might desert them, might take to the road, as Jonas had done.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
16  Still others, worse yet, would crowd about the bar, and at the expense of the host drink themselves sodden, paying not the least attention to any one, and leaving it to be thought that either they had danced with the bride already, or meant to later on.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
17  He did not drink or fight, because he was thinking all the time of Ona; and for the rest, he was a quiet, steady man, who did what he was told to, did not lose his temper often, and when he did lose it made the offender anxious that he should not lose it again.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2
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