water-drinker

Example Sentences

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The man said this with a sneer, for he knew that the captain had taken nothing since he entered the house, and was aware, moreover, that he was a water-drinker.

From The Lifeboat by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

True, my hepatic apparatus, as the doctors grandly call the liver, had got miserably out of gear, though I was a water-drinker, and though I had a wholesome horror of tropical sunshine.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 by Various

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

You know I am a water-drinker; give me only the pure limpid stream, and a child may lead me.

From Frank Mildmay Or, the Naval Officer by Marryat, Frederick

And Machon the comic poet mentions Moschion as a water-drinker.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us