drink-consuming

Updated: May 2, 2025

Accordingly, the liquor-trade is followed by very few persons, and the consumption of drink by the natives is very much curtailed, compared, for instance, with what it is among the drink-consuming natives of New Zealand, who are allowed to swallow the "fire-water," to the great profit of the publicans and to their own demoralization, without any restriction whatever.

Samuel Smiles - A Boy's Voyage Round the World