water-drinker

Example Sentences

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I took it out in honor of Lendrick, but he is a water-drinker.

From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. by Lever, Charles James

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)

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

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

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

From Atlantic Classics by Various