water-drinker
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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 Daniel Turner Holmes
True, my hepatic apparatus, as the doctors grandly call the liver, had got miserably out of gear, though I was a water-drinker, and though I had a wholesome horror of tropical sunshine.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 by Various
Poor Boswell was at this time a water-drinker by Johnson's recommendation, though unluckily for himself he never broke off his drinking habits for long.
From Samuel Johnson by Sir Leslie Stephen
Good, honest, kindly faces I saw at Charrade, but why this uncommonly pretty one hid herself, as she must have done whenever she saw this distinguished water-drinker coming to Charrade is a charade to me.
From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, December 10, 1887 by Various
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 R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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