water-drinker
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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
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
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 George MacDonald
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
What," said the old dame, as she handed it to her, "ye are a water-drinker, are ye?
From Fifty-Two Stories For Girls by Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) Miles
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