water-drinker
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
The Water-Drinker Speaks.—Go on drinking your wine, which has refreshed you all your life—what affair is it of yours if I have to be a water-drinker?
From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The vegetable and milk eater, and water-drinker, do not need them.
From Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
