water-drinker
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Its author, Samuel Richardson, was a middle-aged London printer, a vegetarian and water-drinker, a worthy, domesticated, fussy, and highly-nervous little man.
From Fielding by Austin Dobson
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
A pretty theme for an old water-drinker who had never tasted wine!
From In a Little Town by Rupert Hughes
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 F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
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
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