Hard drinkers are more important than ever to the large brewers.

Everybody in the story is either a hard drinker or being groomed to be one.

"I thought pilots were supposed to be hard drinkers," she said.

After this, Legree became a harder drinker than ever before.

Bill was a hard drinker, and his father was not immune.

Everyone knows Babe was a hard drinker - you might call him a lone wolf.

He is a loafer, a hard drinker, and a sponge.

He was a hard drinker and a chain smoker.

Yet it was still afternoon, and there would be few customers at this time, the only ones the hard drinkers, the truly dissolute.

She was a hard drinker, he said, and spent much of her time on the New Haven green with other alcoholics.

For one thing, they are hard drinkers.

She served him alcohol-free lager and let the other customers think he was a hard drinker.

He had also been a hard drinker.

A hard worker, according to Tian, but an even harder drinker.

He had been known as a hard drinker and braw'er for many years.

Donna has been a hard drinker for decades and has suffered liver failure.

"You're a hard drinker for a tiny thing."

Although she won't touch drugs, Siebert has been called a hard drinker.

By this time in his career, Bisson gained a reputation as a hard drinker.

Why, monsieur, I thought you Americans prided yourselves on being hard drinkers!"

Colt 45 and Red Horse beer with its high alcohol content is favored by hard drinkers.

Hard drinker, hard talker, you'd have expected her to louse up the whole procession, but what does she do?

Sample: "They say I'm a hard drinker, but it's one of the easiest things I do."

A cheerful, bearded man of 55, he had a reputation as a hard drinker and a bit of a romancer.

Mr. Tower's reputation as a hard drinker, for example, would not have created a public furor a decade ago, many politicians say.