free liver
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of free liver
First recorded in 1705–15
Example Sentences
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Nye was a free liver, though not a dissipated man, and, as you know, a very excellent speaker.
From My Memories of Eighty Years by Chauncey M. (Chauncey Mitchell) Depew
From his ancestors, most probably the Governor, who, we infer, was a free liver in a tropical climate, he derived the curse of gout.
From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Archibald Phillip Primrose Rosebery
A free liver, diseased viscera, belly very tense, and much swollen; fluctuation perceptible, but the swelling circumscribed; pulse 132.
From An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases by William Withering
He was a great horseman and a free liver.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake
Some have imagined that he was a free liver and roysterer, after the fashion of his time, that he lived as Robert Greene and Christopher Marlowe and other dissipated writers.
From William Shakespeare His Homes and Haunts by A. (Amédée) Forestier
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