Careful Words

drunk (n.)

drunk (adj.)

All learned, and all drunk!

William Cowper (1731-1800): The Task. Book iv. The Winter Evening. Line 478.

Gloriously drunk, obey the important call.

William Cowper (1731-1800): The Task. Book iv. The Winter Evening, Line 510.

Some have been beaten till they know

What wood a cudgel's of by th' blow;

Some kick'd until they can feel whether

A shoe be Spanish or neat's leather.

Samuel Butler (1600-1680): Hudibras. Part ii. Canto i. Line 221.

  He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Love's Labour's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.

Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day;

Let other hours be set apart for business.

To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk;

And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.

Henry Fielding (1707-1754): Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 2.

Mynheer Vandunck, though he never was drunk,

Sipped brandy and water gayly.

George Colman, The Younger (1762-1836): Mynheer Vandunck.