water-drinker
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The vegetable and milk eater, and water-drinker, do not need them.
From Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
Phylarchus says that Theodorus the Larissæan was a water-drinker; the man, I mean, who was always so hostile to king Antigonus.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
The strength, health, tact, and enterprise of the "water-drinker" convinced them that he was right.
From From Boyhood to Manhood Life of Benjamin Franklin by William M. (William Makepeace) Thayer
And Pythermus, in his account of the tyrants of Piræus, mentions Glaucon as having been a water-drinker.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
He was not only, I soon discovered, a water-drinker, but a strict "vegetarian" also; to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the almost preternatural clearness, volubility, and sensitiveness of his mind.
From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Thomas Hughes
