water-drinker
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A water-drinker, like Sir Thomas More, was the rarest of exceptions.
From The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith
Gentlemen, you are aware that our honored guest is a water-drinker.
From Recollections of a Long Life An Autobiography by Theodore Ledyard Cuyler
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
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
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
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