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

Orsino was no more a born gambler than he was disposed to be a hard drinker.

From Don Orsino by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

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)

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