water-drinker
Example Sentences
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The vegetable and milk eater, and water-drinker, do not need them.
From Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
"That is, become a water-drinker, you mean, Ben?"
From From Boyhood to Manhood Life of Benjamin Franklin by Thayer, William M. (William Makepeace)
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
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
The strength, health, tact, and enterprise of the "water-drinker" convinced them that he was right.
From From Boyhood to Manhood Life of Benjamin Franklin by Thayer, William M. (William Makepeace)
