"It's not often we meet a drinking man such as yourself."

I had always known him to be fastidious, and he was never a drinking man.

That came from having to rely on a drinking man, but here again he had not been consulted.

I can give him half my food, but he's a drinking man.

He wasn't a drinking man, but it eased his feelings.

The actor playing Rochester was himself at that point a drinking man.

I'm a drinking man by nature, I know that now.

"That is, if you happen to be a drinking man."

Just to test it out, you see, because I'm no drinking man.

I got the impression that he was a bit of a drinking man?