water-drinker

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Captain Scott, himself a water-drinker, had arranged that no intoxicating beverages, in any form, should appear in the saloon.

From Brought Home by Stretton, Hesba

I took it out in honor of Lendrick, but he is a water-drinker.

From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. by Lever, Charles James

Imagination fails to grasp either of them in the r�le of a water-drinker.

From Atlantic Classics by Various

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

Phylarchus says that Theodorus the Larissæan was a water-drinker; the man, I mean, who was always so hostile to king Antigonus.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us