water-drinker
Example Sentences
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The man said this with a sneer, for he knew that the captain had taken nothing since he entered the house, and was aware, moreover, that he was a water-drinker.
From The Lifeboat by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
And Machon the comic poet mentions Moschion as a water-drinker.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
Gentlemen, you are aware that our honored guest is a water-drinker.
From Recollections of a Long Life An Autobiography by Cuyler, Theodore Ledyard
The vegetable and milk eater, and water-drinker, do not need them.
From Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
He glanced at the thin and rather bloodless face, and at the high cheekbones of the water-drinker as he spoke.
From The Nebuly Coat by Falkner, John Meade
