free liver
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of free liver
First recorded in 1705–15
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
Old Kamehameha I., was dead, and his son, Liholiho, the new King was a free liver, a roystering, dissolute fellow, and hated the restraints of the ancient tabu.
From Roughing It, Part 8. by Mark Twain
My Dad was a young, happy-go-lucky Irish lad, a hard worker, a free liver, and surely improvident.
From David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story by George S. Harney
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