water-drinker
Example Sentences
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We had an exquisite from St Mary Hall, a pea-coated Brazenose boatman, a philosophical water-drinker and union-debater from Balliol, and a two bottle man from Christ Church.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 by Various
Imagination fails to grasp either of them in the r�le of a water-drinker.
From Atlantic Classics 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)
Gentlemen, you are aware that our honored guest is a water-drinker.
From Recollections of a Long Life An Autobiography by Cuyler, Theodore Ledyard
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
