hard drinker
Example Sentences
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Though Mickey Mantle carried the public image of a hard drinker, Danny Mantle argues that perception is overblown.
From Washington Times • Jun. 18, 2016
He is not a hard drinker, poker player, or profane and garrulous see-gar-chomping raconteur.
From Time Magazine Archive
I then observed that I was not a hard drinker, but being a total stranger and liable to sudden sickness, I asked what I would do under such circumstances.
From Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing)
Not that he was an epicure, or a gourmand, or luxurious, or a hard drinker, or anything of that sort—by no means.
From Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
I am not a hard drinker, Pastor, indeed I am not.
From Laicus; Or, the Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish. by Abbott, Lyman
