My daughter, born of another woman, took to the bottle with gusto.

This is one reason adolescents take to the bottle with such eagerness.

But when her mother died in 1978, she said, she "took to the bottle, and went around the world."

Diamond did not take to the bottle well and she was trying "to give her nutrients rather than milk".

Instead of taking command, Baynes took to the bottle and also disappeared below.

We even empathize with First Ladies who take to the bottle.

Henderson looked like a middle-aged prize fighter who has retired and taken to the bottle.

Why more women are taking to the bottle

Cobina Jnr was often there too, minus her husband, but like him had by then taken to the bottle.

Murugesan is crestfallen after Thankam's death and takes to the bottle.

Afterwards, he fell into a deep depression and took to the bottle for solace, something he admitted early in his testimony.

He took to the bottle in earnest, and one night up in Darwin he decided to go for a swim off the jetty.

There is some suggestion that this may have been a bigamous marriage, as although his first wife had 'taken to the bottle', she was not quite dead.

This state of affairs devastated Clarence Bradley, who took to the bottle and thereafter was frequently arrested for drunkenness.

Taking to the bottle

When she returned to her native Queensland after two years, the Duke again took to the bottle and in 1993 was given an eight-year driving ban.

Burrows travels to Los Angeles for a fresh start, but takes to the bottle himself and ends up arrested for public intoxication.

The real Pickfair, for instance, where Mary Pickford later took to the bottle among the roof leaks and frayed furniture, no longer exists.

It would have been nice to have been brought up at a posh school; and I might have been if Dad hadn't taken to the bottle.

He then took to the bottle and soon began drifting west, along with a lot of other footloose but not very free young men, and worked as a zinc miner, plumber and soldier.

Her assigned Open University professor, Frank Bryant (Caine), however, has long since openly taken to the bottle, and soon develops misgivings about Rita's ability to adapt to academia.

Off went Johnnie, the consumptive; in Australia he was cured of his lung trouble but took to the bottle, marrying a former prostitute and earning his living by singing Scottish songs to the miners.

Hurley died at Jack Straw's Castle, Hampstead on 6 December 1913 aged 42, after a short illness, which his friends said was caused by taking to the bottle after Marie broke his heart.

"I might also note that certain officers, Duke Cabell of Broken Ridge among them, are of less use than they might otherwise be, for they take to the bottle at once, and drown their cares by becoming stupid and unfit for any duty.

In one small group Mrs M finds that alcohol helps her forget the noises and is in real danger of 'taking to the bottle', whereas Mrs N finds that even a thimbleful of alcohol increases the head noises dramatically.