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
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
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
He reads none, converses none, is neither a glutton nor a hard drinker; he sports few ornaments, and wears plain clothing.
From Gamblers and Gambling by Beecher, Henry Ward
