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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

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 Groome, William H. C.

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

For a short time also in 1778 Boswell was a water-drinker, Post, April 28, 1778.

From Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman

The Water-Drinker Speaks.—Go on drinking your wine, which has refreshed you all your life—what affair is it of yours if I have to be a water-drinker?

From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm




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