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)

I nod my head—Liu Ling, a hard drinker, one of the group of bibulous poets who called themselves the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove and who lived in China many an ancient century ago.

From John Barleycorn by London, Jack

There was a time when men thought that the reckless devil-may-care man made the finest soldier; that the hard drinker, the hard swearer, the riotous liver came out best in a fight.

From With our Fighting Men The story of their faith, courage, endurance in the Great War by Sellers, William Edward