water-drinker
Example Sentences
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Its author, Samuel Richardson, was a middle-aged London printer, a vegetarian and water-drinker, a worthy, domesticated, fussy, and highly-nervous little man.
From Fielding by Dobson, Austin
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)
From that day, I may here mention, the laird drank nothing but water, much to the pleasure of Peter Simon, who was from choice a water-drinker.
From Warlock o' Glenwarlock by MacDonald, George
"That is, become a water-drinker, you mean, Ben?"
From From Boyhood to Manhood Life of Benjamin Franklin by Thayer, William M. (William Makepeace)
A water-drinker, like Sir Thomas More, was the rarest of exceptions.
From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved
