water-drinker
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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
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
