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drinking bouts

n. (plural of drinking bout English)

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There had been, of course, no spectacular drinking bouts, for those would have been automatically responsible for having him banned from the race-tracks of the world: a genius for avoiding company, he just went about it quietly, steadily, persistently and above all secretly, for Harlow always drank alone, almost invariably in out of the way places, usually quite remote, where he stood little or no chance of being discovered.

At certain times in his life, and therefore during his last months also, it was more than a case of frequent drinking bouts.

My hands and knees trembled, and my brain and body ached until I was reminded of the mornings following the worst drinking bouts of my breathing days.

He always came from these card games and drinking bouts looking like a wild animal who had taken on an entire pack.

It was the very same spot where Strongbow and old Menelik had once spent a silent afternoon together toward the end of their long lives, just before the First World War, the place where there had once been a cheap open-air restaurant with beautiful trellises and vines and hanging flowers, with a pool where ducks paddled and a cage where peacocks squawked, that very same rendezvous where Strongbow and old Menelik and Crazy Cohen had met for their dreaming and drinking bouts on Sunday afternoons so long ago, when they were three young men starting out.

Besides the unending series of sexual contests, I allowed my drinking bouts to become legendary and my vocabulary to return to something approaching the old poststroke days It was fucking wonderful.

Besides the unending series of sexual contests, I allowed my drinking bouts to become legendary and my vocabulary to return to something approaching the old poststroke days.

Later would come the drinking bouts, the boasts, the counting of bonuses and loot.

At night he retired early, without the long drinking bouts he led at Karakorum.

And then it was the salons he'd gone to, the drinking bouts, his evenings with actresses.