1 The blackness of a terrible fit of drunkenness yawning before him, far from arresting him, attracted him.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 12: CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES 2 This is the place for enthusiasm, not for drunkenness.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 12: CHAPTER III—NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE 3 A fit of drunkenness reaching its end resembles a curtain which is torn away.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII—ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK 4 Utility of a vice: his drunkenness had been his salvation.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS... 5 places sanctity somewhere between feasting and drunkenness.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING 6 This somnambulism of drunkenness had something frightful in it.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasGet Context In 27 THE WIFE OF ATHOS 7 Athos did not trust this reply, and he resumed; "you cannot have failed to remark, my dear friend, that everyone has his particular kind of drunkenness, sad or gay."
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasGet Context In 28 THE RETURN 8 My drunkenness is always sad, and when I am thoroughly drunk my mania is to relate all the lugubrious stories which my foolish nurse inculcated into my brain.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasGet Context In 28 THE RETURN 9 She had a terrified thought that he was drunk and Melanie was afraid of drunkenness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER LVI 10 As time goes on there is a variety of drunkenness, among the younger men especially.
11 drunkenness and realizes that his youngest son, Ham, father.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher StoweGet Context In CHAPTER XII 12 '"'Sir,' he answered with a groan, 'it was all bad luck, and my own unspeakable drunkenness.'
13 Henceforth, therefore, there was war between mankind and the centaurs, but he brought it upon himself through his own drunkenness.
14 Though he thought of everything, considered everything, and did everything the best of officers could do in his position, he was in a state akin to feverish delirium or drunkenness.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XX 15 The habits of the military class are the absence of freedom, that is, discipline, idleness, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery, and drunkenness.
War and Peace(V4) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXV