water-drinker
Example Sentences
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A pretty theme for an old water-drinker who had never tasted wine!
From In a Little Town by Hughes, Rupert
Chesterfield, another of the contributors to The World, inserted in it a short character of him under the name of Cantabrigiensis, introduced by an encomium on his temperance; for he was a water-drinker.
From Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives by Cary, Henry Francis
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
He was not only, I soon discovered, a water-drinker, but a strict "vegetarian" also; to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the almost preternatural clearness, volubility, and sensitiveness of his mind.
From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Hughes, Thomas
You know I am a water-drinker; give me only the pure limpid stream, and a child may lead me.
From Frank Mildmay Or, the Naval Officer by Marryat, Frederick
