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And as a pair, they can be as quick, acerbic and caustically funny as the inebriates in the classic English movie “Withnail and I,” which is saying a lot.

From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2015

In China, to get natives to buy kerosene, Standard salesmen sold lamps for less than a song, for a cheep as inebriates of Singapore used to say.

From Time Magazine Archive

Snug as a bug, the cup he waits That cheers but not inebriates, She offers him a truly ducal tea, Whipped up, she says, with no diffewclty.

From Time Magazine Archive

I am a great patron of tea; the poet truly says, 'It cheers, but not inebriates.'

From Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert by Newman, John Henry

"I don't believe she likes Hastings," says Dorian; yet his heart dies within him as he remembers how she defended him about his unlimited affection for the cup that "cheers but not inebriates."

From Faith and Unfaith by Duchess