"Boozer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... are Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom and Charley, The weak of will, the strong of arm, the clown, the boozer, the fighter? All, all are ...
— Spoon River Anthology • Edgar Lee Masters
... boozer, one day visited the school. He opened the door and stood on the threshold. His eyes seemed close together, and there was a long red scar on his bare neck, where he had on a former occasion cut his throat. All the scholars were afraid of Barney, ...
— The Book of the Bush • George Dunderdale
... Joseph." Next morning, at half-past seven, the postman who conveyed letters to the village noticed at the cross-road, not far from the high road, a large splash of blood not yet dry. He said to himself: "Hallo! some boozer must have ...
— Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete • Guy de Maupassant
... anxious perplexity over this strange query. Then it cleared as he thought he grasped the idea, and the rat-eyes he lifted to her gleamed with the fell acuteness of the Dials. "I sh'd be sorry if I wasn't," he answered, in swift, rasping accents. "She's a rare old boozer, she is! It's a fair curse to an honest boy like me, to 'ave—" "Go home!" she bade him, peremptorily—and frowned after him as he ducked and ...
— The Market-Place • Harold Frederic |
