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
That censor and reprover of others, Cato, was reproached that he was a hard drinker: "Narratur et prisci Catonis Saepe mero caluisse virtus."
From The Essays of Montaigne — Complete by Montaigne, Michel de
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
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)
