teetotaler

• The husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling them at his wife, which you will allow is not an action likely to occur to the imagination of the average story teller. —  Stories by Modern English Authors
• Barnum was not at the time a teetotaler, and the two men "washed down" their differences in a bottle of champagne, and were excellent friends from that moment CHAPTER XV. —  Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum
• But I am a teetotaler, and must beg to be permitted to drink to your health and happiness in a glass of cold water Late that night Miss Lind was serenaded by the New York Musical Fund Society, which numbered, on that occasion, two hundred musicians. —  Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum
• An ardent teetotaler, I once sat discussing the movies with a group of very bright young lawyers at Bull Feeney's Tavern in Portland. —  magic-city-news.com
• Though a teetotaler, Lincoln represented both temperance and saloon interests during his legal career. —  News from www.pantagraph.com

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