water-drinker
Example Sentences
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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
The water-drinker filled the whole room with water, and they went into another.
From Armenian Literature by Anonymous
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 Lever, Charles James
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 Pierce, H. Winthrop
Phylarchus says that Theodorus the Larissæan was a water-drinker; the man, I mean, who was always so hostile to king Antigonus.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
