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Meanings of abstainer in English
Usage of abstainer in English
1
Again we had the bottle between us, but Reverdy was an abstainer.
2
My experience, since I became a total abstainer, has been the opposite.
3
Still, the Judge, though he hated noisy revellers, was no total abstainer.
4
The sight of the ribbon induces the curious to offer the abstainer drink.
5
The Sikh drinks what he will; the Pathan is an abstainer.
6
Total abstinence resembles this preventive; no total abstainer is in danger of alcoholism.
7
Being an abstainer, I asked leave to retire with the ladies.
8
At a time when drinking was almost universal, he was a total abstainer.
9
He asked the warden-butthe warden was a total abstainer.
10
It is no credit to me for being an abstainer.
11
I had hoped to hear that you were an abstainer-
12
Mr Todhunter, as has been remarked, is a quiet thrifty gentleman, essentially an abstainer.
13
His father, though not a total abstainer, had lived and died a temperate man.
14
He passed quite fifteen years in Washington, a total abstainer from the use of intoxicants.
15
And William died in the belief that he also became a "total abstainer."
16
The New York Sun says: Every successful man in Wall Street is a total abstainer.
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