water-drinker
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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
