38 examples of teetotal in sentences

The Rev. Charles Garrett, the celebrated teetotal President of the Wesleyan Conference, writing several years after John Cassell's death, says: "I signed the pledge of total abstinence in 1840, after hearing a lecture on the subject by the late John Cassell.

In this connection I may remark that Jack Crawford is the only man I have ever known that could have brought that bottle of whiskey through without accident befalling it, for he is one of the very few teetotal scouts I ever met.

I haven't taken up teetotal work, but teetotal work has taken up me!

I haven't taken up teetotal work, but teetotal work has taken up me!

Do we not think that it is a good thing that our army is, by force of circumstances, a teetotal one?

This whole campaign has been almost entirely a teetotal one for reasons of transport and inability to get drink.

"She's a wonder," he said to himself, "a teetotal wonder" A shade of melancholy passed over his face.

" Sam could 'ardly believe his ears, and he stood there 'oldin' his glass o' ginger-beer and watching Peter's teetotal uncle drink whiskey, and thought 'e must be dreaming.

I'm not going to 'ave my 'oliday spoilt by a teetotal nevvy, I can tell you.

Let it not be supposed that any teetotal spirit suggested this inconoclasm, far from itthe glasses were too small, and the poets, the wits, the punsters, the jesters, preferred to drink their port out of tumblers.

I cannot say who were the teetotal, or abstinent, Philistines.

"All can sympathise with Mr. and his teetotal party in deploring the excesses of 'liquor' of any description, and the vice, want and misery it brings in its course.

We don't force them to be teetotal, do we?

When Mr. Lister paid for a drink, the demon of avarice masquerading as conscience preached a teetotal lecture, and when he showed signs of profiting by it, the demon of drink would send him hanging round public-house doors cadging for drinks in a way which his shipmates regarded as a slur upon the entire ship's company.

The new state of things would be still more satisfactory from a teetotal point of view if Nature were less niggardly of water in these parts.

" "As Miss McQuinch and I are no longer on speaking terms, I leave her to the care of yonder scientific amateur, who has just refused, on teetotal grounds, to pledge the Rev. George in a glass of eighteen shilling sherry.

There are otherwhat I will call specialist old-styletraders besides those in the teetotal and unteetotal line to which I wish to refer.

He of necessity abjured alcohols, and straightway longed to utter his testimony on a teetotal platform.

"He didn't hold with cold water and teetotal, not he.

"He's teetotal," said Ted, gazing at Margaret with a twinkle in his eye.

"You're noan teetotal, I'll be bound," she observed.

"Ah, I could coom here," he remarked heroically; "my little nook isn't sich an ill place for all that; but I'll do it, an' I'll gi' ye my wage reg'lar an' do th' dirty work all round, an'an' turn teetotal if ye want it.

That frightened Bill a bit, and the next night, instead of 'aving lemonade, 'e had five bottles o' stone ginger-beer, six of different kinds of teetotal beer, three of soda-water, and two cups of coffee.

"I've been teetotal for eleven months now.

'If I wasna teetotal,' Willie added in a burst of generosity, 'I wud stan' ye a drink.' VIII CORRESPONDENCE Macgregor to Christina MY DEAR CHRISTINA, I was looking for your letter the whole of yesterday, but it did not come till this morning at 8.35 a.m., and I am sorry to say it is not near as nice as I expected.

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