He resolutely revived his idea of the dead man as a thing unfit to live-just a brute, without a man's healthy instincts-a foul debauchee, ruining sweet and comely innocence whenever he could get at it.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
On the low flat ground which stretches away to the north of the rock of Lisbon, they could clearly perceive with their glasses the domes and towers of the Escurial of Portugal, the immense palace and convent of Mafra, built by that pious debauchee, John the Fifth.
"The Prime Minister"
W.H.G. Kingston
In the neighbourhood was an enemy, too, a Frenchman, who was once a Christian brother, and now, unfrocked, a drunkard and a debauchee.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs