[T]he natives were an honest, social race of jolly roysterers, who had no objection to a drinking bout, and were very merry in their cups.

They grew only the more sober in their cups; there was no confused babble nor boisterous laughter. They sucked in the joyous fire of the decanters and kept it smouldering in their inmost recesses.

[H]ere he gambled, there he drank; and in his cups every virtue dissolved.

The woman on the other hand is in her cups swigging from one wine glass while another stands at her elbow.

In one's cups

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