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
Orsino was no more a born gambler than he was disposed to be a hard drinker.
From Don Orsino by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
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)
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
