A girl also needs peace to reapply her lippy, regroup and prepare for the next merciless assault on some feckless tippler. |
Suzanne Phocas did, when she painted the artist Jean Metzinger, her husband-to-be, propped up against a marble Venus like a tippler at a museum opening. |
As the tippler could not obtain the liquor for a spree, he had become sober. |
But Lincoln was hopelessly inefficient behind the counter, and Berry was a tippler. |
I was like the tippler who cuts down on her drinking and is then sent reeling by half a mojito. |
The tippler brought his speech to an end, and shut himself up in an impregnable silence. |