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

A large corpulent man, and a hard drinker: he had repeatedly suffered under complaints of this kind, but had been always relieved by the judicious assistance of Dr. Ash.

From An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases by Withering, William

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