An occasional drink.
1775. i have never yet heard of one going to Florida, who was not told by his friend, that a free glass was necessary; how true this is, i shall not pretend to say, but certain it is, that the advice is almost always too freely followed, the free glass generally degenerating into a glass of excess.—B. Romans ‘Florida,’ p. 13. [Romans insisted on the small letter for the personal pronoun.]
