water-drinker

Example Sentences

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Gentlemen, you are aware that our honored guest is a water-drinker.

From Recollections of a Long Life An Autobiography by Cuyler, Theodore Ledyard

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)

I took it out in honor of Lendrick, but he is a water-drinker.

From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. 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

What," said the old dame, as she handed it to her, "ye are a water-drinker, are ye?

From Fifty-Two Stories For Girls by Miles, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry)