water-drinker
Example Sentences
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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
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
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 Frederick Marryat
Chesterfield, another of the contributors to The World, inserted in it a short character of him under the name of Cantabrigiensis, introduced by an encomium on his temperance; for he was a water-drinker.
From Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives by Henry Francis Cary
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
