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Meanings of great drinker in English

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Usage of great drinker in English
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He was a great drinker, greedy of money, hard, and obstinate.
Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway
2
Mithridates, and the woman of Pergamus; a great drinker.
Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies
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He was a great drinker and a brawler.
Wolf hall
4
Capa was a flamboyant guy, a great drinker and a womaniser who had so many lovers, including Ingrid Bergman.
The Guardian
5
Heraclides, wrestler, a great drinker.
Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies
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He's a great drinker.
The Rover Boys In The Mountains; Or, A Hunt for Fun and Fortune
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Alexander the Great , sayings and stories of; and Timoclea; orations on; remark of Theocritus about; Diogenes and; in India; as a great drinker.
Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies
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If he has been a great drinker, he may be allowed to take a little beer; but it is better not to do so.
The Book of Household Management
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He was fond of books and of wine and of women; he was a great drinker of wine, even for those days of deep drink.
A History of the Four Georges, Volume I
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He has always lived like a peasant: a great hunter, a great drinker, a great litigant, always at law with somebody, now very nearly ruined.
The Eight Strokes of the Clock
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Mr. GRAUNT affirmed, that he knew two gentlemen, great drinkers of coffee, very paralytical.
Quicksilver
12
We are gross eaters, we are great drinkers.
What Is Your Culture to Me?
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Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their revellings, who contribute flesh to eat:
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2
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Great gamblers do not drink, and great drinkers are not good players, though they are sometimes amazingly lucky when in their cups.
Don Orsino
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Apropos of this, we are great drinkers of these welcome stimulants; we seldom halt drinking until we have each had six or seven cups.
How I Found Livingstone / Travels, adventures, and discoveres in...
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Lorand, alone against the united opinion of the whole company, had the audacity to assert that the Germans were the greatest drinkers in the world.
Debts of Honor
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