water-drinker

Example Sentences

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Imagination fails to grasp either of them in the r�le of a water-drinker.

From Atlantic Classics by Various

The water-drinker filled the whole room with water, and they went into another.

From Armenian Literature by Anonymous

Gentlemen, you are aware that our honored guest is a water-drinker.

From Recollections of a Long Life An Autobiography by Cuyler, Theodore Ledyard

The man said this with a sneer, for he knew that the captain had taken nothing since he entered the house, and was aware, moreover, that he was a water-drinker.

From The Lifeboat by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

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