water-drinker
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A pretty theme for an old water-drinker who had never tasted wine!
From In a Little Town by Rupert Hughes
And Pythermus, in his account of the tyrants of Piræus, mentions Glaucon as having been a water-drinker.
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
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
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
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