Now although he may recognize that he has a reason to cut down on his alcohol intake, he also recognizes that he has a better reason to become a teetotaller.
I am almost certain that he is so cheerful because he is a teetotaller.
If the "pubs"are open for another half hour, no teetotaller need be forced into a"pub" for the extra half hour.
There is a vast difference between temperance and being a teetotaller.
Suppose a supplier happened to be a very strict teetotaller and saw his price-cutting dealer going into a public-house.
We all know about this liquor business and the agitation by teetotallers, brewers, publicans, and off-licence holders going back over many years.
They wil1 be found among brewers, and sometimes among teetotallers, too.
He said that he had a teetotaller friend a very ardent advocate of the temperance cause— who was elected to a local authority.