"Swilling" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... mouth, you beer-swilling pig!" he thundered, stepping towards him with his heavy boots, "or I'll soon ...
— Ditte: Girl Alive! • Martin Andersen Nexo
... a little drop of those French drinks in the morning," said Lady Scatcherd, in her confidence; for she was too honest to be false, even in her own cause. "He does do that, I know: but that's nothing, my dear, to swilling all day; and everything can't be done at once, can it, ...
— Doctor Thorne • Anthony Trollope
... Then he swills around at hotel bars, stays with some of his lady whores, and then comes back here and expects me to pull him into shape again, to make his nose a little less red. He thinks he can use my place to fall back on when he can't go any longer, to fix him up to do some more swilling later on. ...
— Twelve Men • Theodore Dreiser
... particularly gay. Then the Yeomen were supposed to be enjoying themselves. Pleasant, if they had always enjoyed themselves in an innocent fashion. That many of them did so, it is only charitable to believe. And while the fast and foolish, the gross and wicked were swilling and roystering in evil localities, the generous, manly, gentle souls gratified the matrons with whom they were billeted by walking with them and their daughters through the streets, or into the nearest meadow; or perhaps they ...
— Girlhood and Womanhood - The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes • Sarah Tytler |
