water-drinker
Example Sentences
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If truth there be in old Cratinus' song, No verse, you know, Maecenas, can live long Writ by a water-drinker.
From The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry by John Conington
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 John Meade Falkner
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 George Birkbeck Norman Hill
A pretty theme for an old water-drinker who had never tasted wine!
From In a Little Town by Rupert Hughes
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
