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Example sentences for "total abstainer"

  • My wife has even gone the length of becoming a total abstainer, in order to have more influence over him; but I don't quite see my way to do that myself.

  • An' that minds me that I would tak it kind if ye would write an' tell me how he gets on, for I hev promised to become a total abstainer if he wull.

  • Git him, if ye can, to become a total abstainer, nothin' less than that wull do wi' a man in that condeetion.

  • I am myself a total abstainer (not pledged), and I have never smoked in my life.

  • Almost all my life I have taken alcoholic liquors in moderation, but have also been a total abstainer for a short period.

  • I am not a total abstainer, and theoretically have had a belief that pure wine ought to be beneficial to the human system.

  • He used to take an occasional glass of beer or spirits when on shore or on board the copers, but he became a total abstainer, much to his own benefit in every way, and as a result he became rich--in an extremely small way.

  • I think it safe to say that, other things being equal, all American life insurance companies would consider a total abstainer a more desirable risk than a moderate drinker.

  • I am not a total abstainer, but that only shows that I take better care of my patients than I do of myself.

  • I never drink," replied Hotchkiss, with the severe attitude of a total abstainer.

  • I wuz a total abstainer in them days," he said quietly.

  • Let it not be supposed, my friends, that I say it is the duty of every one to put on the blue ribbon and become a total abstainer.

  • There was another thing much in his favour, he was a total abstainer.

  • I had not lived as a total abstainer; though, as I told you once, my mother, whom I can only recollect as a widow, had banished all intoxicants from our table.

  • I resolved when I heard it that never would I under any circumstances offer intoxicating drinks to others, as I had previously, while myself a total abstainer, occasionally done.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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