But the evil of overdrinking increased, and some religious reformers found that the easiest way to check it was to forbid all use of intoxicants.
"Daybreak: A Romance of an Old World"
James Cowan
Of course it was never intrinsically wrong to drink a glass of wine, but in view of the enormous amount of sorrow and trouble caused by overdrinking, can it be wondered at that many earnest souls came to abhor everything in the nature of intoxicating drink, and to practice and insist on total abstinence?
"Daybreak: A Romance of an Old World"
James Cowan
Then pail by pail he fed them the water until the danger of overdrinking was past.
"The Killer"
Stewart Edward White