water-drinker

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M—— sent to his friend L——, who is no water-drinker, a two-penny tract 'Against the Use of Fermented Liquors.'

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 by Various

A water-drinker in India is always a phenomenon, but a water-drinker who did the thing so artistically was such a manifestation as I had never seen.

From Mr. Isaacs by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

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

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 MacDonald, George

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 Stephen, Leslie, Sir