total abstainer
Example Sentences
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Sam Snead, whose fluent style has lasted longer than any other man’s in the history of the game, was reduced to putting between his legs, croquet fashion—and he was a total abstainer for years.
From Golf Digest • Mar. 31, 2020
He was a total abstainer and a nonsmoker, had no recreations except a daily hour in the gymnasium, and had taken a vow of celibacy .
From Time Magazine Archive
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"I am a total abstainer and a fanatical Dry myself," said Dr. Empringham.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I am, as everyone knows, a vegetarian, and a total abstainer from tobacco, alcohol and soap.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Of course total abstinence is a remedy; but then the British workman is not a total abstainer, and that is a question which I am not about to discuss.
From Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)