hard drinking
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There is McAvoy's hard drinking, watery-eyed boss, played by Sam Waterston, who defends the show to the relentlessly commercial, highly nepotistic and unguardedly stupid cable owners.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 23, 2012
He was a Whig squire, a plain country gentleman, with enough of culture to love good pictures and the ancient classics, but delighting chiefly in sports and agriculture, hard drinking and politics.
From The Conquest of New France A chronicle of the colonial wars by George McKinnon Wrong
In an age of hard drinking he was accounted puritanically abstemious.
From Lewis Rand by Mary Johnston
Here, by the bye, came along the inevitable run of prolonged reading, like hard drinking, which, of course, every boy and girl has undergone.
From Yama: the pit by Bernard Guilbert Guerney
After a period distinguished by hard drinking and hard eating, has come a period of comparative sobriety, which, in teetotalism and vegetarianism, exhibits extreme forms of protest against the riotous living of the past.
From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer
