water-drinker

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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

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

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 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

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 Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)