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Chesterfield, another of the contributors to The World, inserted in it a short character of him under the name of Cantabrigiensis, introduced by an encomium on his temperance; for he was a water-drinker.

From Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives by Cary, Henry Francis

A water-drinker in India is always a phenomenon, but a water-drinker who did the thing so artistically was such a manifestation as I had never seen.

From Mr. Isaacs by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

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

Being a water-drinker at home, from motives of prudence, not to say necessity, it did not require much in the way of stimulus to render poor little Joel addle-headed.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various

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

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




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