water-drinker
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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 Sir Leslie Stephen
I am a rather expensive man to sit beside, and to one like you especially so, for you seem to be a water-drinker.
From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Daniel Turner Holmes
And Machon the comic poet mentions Moschion as a water-drinker.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
Good, honest, kindly faces I saw at Charrade, but why this uncommonly pretty one hid herself, as she must have done whenever she saw this distinguished water-drinker coming to Charrade is a charade to me.
From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, December 10, 1887 by Various
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
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