When he showed that petulant old warhorse of an artist, Horace Vernet, haberdashed with medals, Nadar had no trouble revealing a seeker of official honors.

There is ample shelving in the basement.

Alternative form: tippler

The impartial observer of mankind is compelled to acknowledge that anger is the bane of society, the introducer of discord into the families of rich and poor, the disjoiner of friendships, the destroyer of conjugal and domestic bliss.