water-drinker

Example Sentences

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I am a rather expensive man to sit beside, and to one like you especially so, for you seem to be a water-drinker.

From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Holmes, Daniel Turner

The Water-Drinker Speaks.—Go on drinking your wine, which has refreshed you all your life—what affair is it of yours if I have to be a water-drinker?

From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

"That is, become a water-drinker, you mean, Ben?"

From From Boyhood to Manhood Life of Benjamin Franklin by Thayer, William M. (William Makepeace)

M—— sent to his friend L——, who is no water-drinker, a two-penny tract 'Against the Use of Fermented Liquors.'

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 by Various

Its author, Samuel Richardson, was a middle-aged London printer, a vegetarian and water-drinker, a worthy, domesticated, fussy, and highly-nervous little man.

From Fielding by Dobson, Austin