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

For a short time also in 1778 Boswell was a water-drinker, Post, April 28, 1778.

From Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman

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

The strength, health, tact, and enterprise of the "water-drinker" convinced them that he was right.

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

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