water-drinker
Example Sentences
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We had an exquisite from St Mary Hall, a pea-coated Brazenose boatman, a philosophical water-drinker and union-debater from Balliol, and a two bottle man from Christ Church.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 by Various
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
They called him the "American water-drinker," but there came a day when he performed a feat that became the admiration of the young London printers.
From True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin by H. Winthrop Pierce
I had never heard of hydropathy, but I was heartily willing to sing its praises, and I have ever since been a resolute water-drinker.
From Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures by William H. C. Groome
Wine of every kind, for instance, was largely sent to one who was a confirmed water-drinker, and who, except when obliged by the impure state of the water, never ventured to taste wine.
From Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General by Charles James Lever
