Meanings of drinking rather in английском

But drinking rather than eating was the staple of this establishment.

Perhaps you have been drinking rather too much cider, you know.

He had been drinking rather heavily, a fact which he was quite unable to disguise.

He had been drinking rather heavily and had lost some of the confidence she had seen in Chelsea.

Daniel certainly had; the brothers agreed that she must have been drinking rather more than was good for her.

The air of the room was heavy with smoke, and all the men and some of the women were drinking rather too much.

One day, after Furr had been drinking rather freely with his pretended friends, he was taken so violently ill, that a physician was immediately called.

"It would be easily answered," was the unhesitating reply of Ellis, who had been drinking rather freely.