hard drinking

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

In the group that surrounded him was our old acquaintance, Judge Edward McGowan—Ned McGowan—jolly, hard drinking, oily, but not as noisy as usual.

From The Gray Dawn by Stewart Edward White

I deny this absolutely, and to prove the contrary, I say, the Persians had a custom to deliberate on things the most serious, and of the 153 greatest importance, after hard drinking.

From Ebrietatis Encomium or, the Praise of Drunkenness by Robert Samber

Vague reports, assertions without proof, have been not infrequently made, to the effect that the Zouaves are in character cruel, dissolute, and excessively given to hard drinking.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 by Various

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