I have just made a discovery, that this place is as full of idlers and water-drinkers as their Highnesses of Orange and Hesse Darmstadt can desire; for to them accrue all the profits of its salubrious fountains.
Yet the above does not hide the fact that the colonists were great drinkers and that they drank because they wanted to and would have drank, excuse or no excuse.
At the time of the Stamp Act, when patriotic Americans threw the tea into Boston harbor, Americans were just as great tea-drinkers as the English.
European consumption during the last century has been marked by the growth of imports into France and Germany; these being the two leading coffee drinkers of the world, aside from the United States.
Payen says that the first coffee drinkers did not think of roasting but, impressed by the aroma of the dried beans, they put them in cold water and drank the liquor saturated with their aromatic principles.
Numerous examples of young abstainers who have died and coffee drinkers who have still lived on can be found, and vice versa, the preponderance of instances being in neither direction.
It may thus be prescribed for hard drinkers to counteract the baleful excitability produced by alcohol; in fact, many topers taper off after a long debauch with coffee containing small amounts of alcoholic beverages.
The lovers of coffee used the physicians very ill when they met together, and the physicians on their side threatened the coffee drinkers with all sorts of diseases.
It is said that in Saxony there are more coffee drinkers to the square inch and more cups to the single coffee bean than anywhere else upon earth.
It is sufficient here to refer to the climax of the agitation against the fateful tea tax, because it is undoubtedly responsible for our becoming a nation of coffee drinkers instead of one of tea drinkers, like England.
First he drove the coffee drinkers out of the mosque.
The sunshine is still on Samaria, and your fellow-drinkers there are revelling in security.
They had always been harddrinkers in North Israel.
And the two drinkers each emptied a tumbler full of brandy at a draught.
Sir John Koss, in his Arctic voyage, proved by his own experience and that of his men that cold-water drinkers could bear cold longer and were stronger than any who used alcohol.
Most tea-drinkers consider tea as ruined if it stands until it reaches the healthful temperature for drink.
Belike you will find her displaying these charms of hers to the drinkers in the tavern.
And this, in Flanders, is the signal that the drinkers make when they are angry, and when they are like to ransack and despoil in their wrath the houses of ill fame.
This appears to be well known to the lower class of whiskey drinkers in these countries, and to the consumers of corn brandy in some of the northern parts of Europe.
Many habitual coffee drinkers cannot tolerate the use of chicory, which is a doubtful improver of coffee.
There are drinkers of the deadly absinthe, and occasionally indulgers in the more immediate but less fearful brandy, but they are rare.
Slouching and weaving along so as to attract the minimum of attention, Dave and Freddy made their way past the other coffee drinkers to the rear door.
It seemed to be sort of an unwritten law that you didn't stare too hard or too long at your fellow coffee drinkers in the Devil's Den.
Agias noticed that he was expected to join the other drinkers around the centre table.
The thieves ran from their lairs; the late drinkers sprang from their wine.
I was afraid you might find the journey very fatiguing; but you water-drinkers are Herculean fellows.
It is said that beer drinkers are slow, and a little stupid; that they have an ox-like placidity not quite favorable to any brilliant intellectual display.
The wine drinkers are agile, but they are excitable; the beer drinkers are heavy, but in their heaviness there is peace.
In the midst of the drinkers two officers in full uniform dazzled all eyes with their glittering gold lace.
But he suddenly perceived the officers and darted towards them, jostling the drinkers in his path.
The candles were popish and the drinkers were pagan, so he turned on Biddy and told her more or less what he thought of her.
He pointed with disgust to a couple of drinkers who lay snoring on a sofa under the window.
Similarly, consumption by youths is less than that of adults, but the numbers of youths becoming habitual drinkers has been increasing.
Many more men than women have alcohol problems, but the percentage of women problem drinkers has risen more rapidly.
The cafes had closed their doors to the drinkers and domino players.
I came to Austinmer 30 years ago before the Wardrobe Drinkers in the days of the miners & cottages.
Many Tea drinkers who imagine erroneously that a very dark-colored liquor indicates strength boil the leaves, while others again spoil the infusion by first putting the leaves in boiling water.
This combination gives better satisfaction to Tea-drinkers of this grade and costs much less.
Assam Pekoe-Souchong . 5 Ceylon Pekoe-Souchong . Average cost This combination will please the most fastidiousdrinkers of these Teas.
Good Tea, like good wine, can be kept intact for years with considerable advantage to the dealer and consumer alike, and there is no valid reason why consumers of Tea should not be as particular and fastidious as drinkers of wine.
There would be little prospect of orderliness in the after-proceedings then; so, anyhow, the tea-drinkers have the best of it even when they are at their worst.
The chances of losing children at chances of begetting feeble-minded or degenerate children, are markedly greater for even moderate drinkers than for abstainers.
Many other factors enter into the individual situation, of course; we know many cases where inveterate drinkers have lived to a ripe old age; it takes a great deal to break the iron constitutions of some men.
Equal to ten drinkers of alcohol is one courtezan.
Even thus did Chyavana make the Aswins drinkers of Soma with the other gods.
Having passed his promise to the twin Aswins, Chyavana addressed the chastiser of Paka, saying, 'Do thou make the Aswins drinkers of Soma with all other deities!
The Dutch were great beer-drinkers and quickly established breweries at Albany and New York.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drinkers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
