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

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

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)

The chaplain, we call him Figg—Jonathan Figg's his name; the Reverend Jonathan Figg, B.A., of Sydney Sussex College, Cambridge; a good fellow and a moderately hard drinker.

From Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir