water-drinker
Example Sentences
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Pretty lady! do not stay with that moody water-drinker!
From Tales From J?kai by M?r J?kai
If truth there be in old Cratinus' song, No verse, you know, Maecenas, can live long Writ by a water-drinker.
From The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry by John Conington
Phylarchus says that Theodorus the Larissæan was a water-drinker; the man, I mean, who was always so hostile to king Antigonus.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
True, my hepatic apparatus, as the doctors grandly call the liver, had got miserably out of gear, though I was a water-drinker, and though I had a wholesome horror of tropical sunshine.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 by Various
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 William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
