"Dipsomaniac" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... struggle in his eye and I conquered. When the cup of tea came he drank it like a dipsomaniac gulping brandy. Then he fell back ...
— The Club of Queer Trades • G. K. Chesterton
... from his box of candy, he was compelled to endure another of the unspeakable Buckeye comedies. The cross-eyed man was a lifeguard at a beach and there were social entanglements involving a bearded father, his daughter in an inconsiderable bathing suit, a confirmed dipsomaniac, two social derelicts who had to live by their wits, and a dozen young girls also arrayed in inconsiderable bathing suits. He could scarcely follow the chain of events, so illogical were they, and indeed made little effort to do so. He felt far above the ...
— Merton of the Movies • Harry Leon Wilson
... a little by a little. Patricia could hardly have told you at what exact moment it was that she discovered Miss Agatha—who continued of course to live with them—was a dipsomaniac. Very certainly Rudolph Musgrave was not Patricia's informant; it is doubtful if the colonel ever conceded his sister's infirmity in his most private meditations; so that Patricia found the cause of Miss Agatha's "attacks" to be an open secret of which everyone in the house ...
— The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck - A Comedy of Limitations • James Branch Cabell
... couldn't afford one. And we didn't want a uniform hanging around and rubbing it into the poor boy and everybody else that he was an incurable dipsomaniac." ...
— The Return of the Prodigal • May Sinclair
... of us. Haven't you ever noticed that Miss Duke never sits still—a notorious sign? Haven't you ever observed that Inglewood is always washing his hands— a known mark of mental disease? I, of course, am a dipsomaniac." ...
— Manalive • G. K. Chesterton
... a kind of weakness—a broken cog in the machine which slips and throws everything out of gear, no matter how big the dynamo? I tell you, a dipsomaniac is no more to be blamed for lack of will power or moral strength than is a kleptomaniac, or than an epileptic is to be blamed for having fits. It's a disease. I'm giving it to you straight what ...
— Out of the Primitive • Robert Ames Bennet
... looking dipsomaniac, how do you like water for dinner?" enquired the Commander when they were safely out ...
— The Man From the Clouds • J. Storer Clouston
... car of King Alcohol was rolling on remorselessly, crushing out all life save the frenzied dream of the dipsomaniac. ...
— The Midnight Passenger • Richard Henry Savage |
