Forth went a great Teetotaller, With pamphlet armed and pen, He travelled east, he travelled west, Tobacco to condemn. At length to Cantabrigia, To move her sons to shame, Foredoomed to chaff and insult, That gallant hero came.英文原著 · 《Cambridge Pieces》
"I met him," said Miss Dolly, "three years ago. At that time he was--oh, quite unpresentable. He was everything he shouldn't be. He was a teetotaler, you know, and he didn't smoke, and he was always going to concerts. Oh, and he wore his hair long, and his trousers short, and his hat on the back of his head. And his umbrella--"英文原著 · 《Dolly Dialogues》
Husband and wife, drunkards; husband very lazy, only worked when starved in to it. We found them both out of work, home furnitureless, in debt. She got saved, and our lasses prayed for him to get work. He did so, and went to it. He fell out again a few weeks after, and beat his wife. She sought employment at charing and office cleaning, got it, and has been regularly at work since. He too got work. He is now a teetotaler.英文原著 · 《In Darkest England and The Way Out》
`I didn't know you were a teetotaller, Boss,' I said. I had not been surprised at his keeping so strictly from the drink
on the trip; but now that it was over it was a different thing.英文原著 · 《Joe Wilson and His Mates》
`I'm not a teetotaller, Jack,' he said. `I can take a glass or leave it.'
And he called for a long beer, and we drank `Here's luck!' to each other.英文原著 · 《Joe Wilson and His Mates》
The captain afterwards came to Barnum and apologized for the rude manner in which he had carried out the rules of the ship. Barnum was not at the time a teetotaler, and the two men "washed down" their differences in a bottle of champagne, and were excellent friends from that moment.英文原著 · 《Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum》