drunkardry

When the hour of departure arrives, you see the pavement and carriage way of Bow Street studded with a choice assemblage of the raggedry, ruffianry, felonry, misery, drunkardry, and drabbery, whom the infamous hundred of Drury [Lane], and the scarcely less infamous tithing of Covent [Garden], have cast out into a thoroughfare which, two hours hence, will be re-echoing to the wheels of carriages bearing noble lords and ladies to listen to the delicious [Angiolina] Bosio in the “Traviata,” or the enchanting notes of [Enrico] Tamberlik in “Otello.”

1858 August 7, George Augustus Sala, “Twice Round the Clock, or The Hours of the Day and Night in London […] Five o’Clock p.m.—The Fashionable Club, and the Prisoners’ Van.”, in The Welcome Guest: A Magazine of Recreative Reading for All, number 15, London: Office […], page 233, column 1

When the [American] Civil War broke out, [Mark] Twain may have briefly entertained pro-Union sentiments but at length decided to serve with a ragtag bunch of Confederate irregulars. After a couple of weeks, “hunted like a rat the whole time,” he thought better of that commitment and, as Huck Finn did, lit out for the territory. This territory was Nevada and California, where he prospected for silver without luck and practiced scurrilous journalism and general drunkardry with zest.

2008 July 14, Roy Blount Jr., “America’s Original Superstar”, in Time, volume 172, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, page 51, column 1

But just in case the Danes decide it isn’t nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous drunkardry from across the water, there are contingency measures.

2009 January 11, David Whitley, “Two beers or not two beers?: Denmark”, in The Sun-Herald, Sydney, N.S.W., page 22