water-drinker
Example Sentences
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If truth there be in old Cratinus' song, No verse, you know, Maecenas, can live long Writ by a water-drinker.
From The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry by John Conington
Being a water-drinker at home, from motives of prudence, not to say necessity, it did not require much in the way of stimulus to render poor little Joel addle-headed.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various
A water-drinker, like Sir Thomas More, was the rarest of exceptions.
From The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith
"That is, become a water-drinker, you mean, Ben?"
From From Boyhood to Manhood Life of Benjamin Franklin by William M. (William Makepeace) Thayer
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 R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
