water-drinker

Example Sentences

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He glanced at the thin and rather bloodless face, and at the high cheekbones of the water-drinker as he spoke.

From The Nebuly Coat by Falkner, John Meade

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

A water-drinker, like Sir Thomas More, was the rarest of exceptions.

From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved

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

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