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water-drinker

noun as in abstainer

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Coach Joe’s Tip: This one’s pretty simple: Become a water-drinker.

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Here I was thinking I’m the world’s best water-drinker,” Lyman said.

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.

A water-drinker, provided he is a profess’d one, and does it without fraud or covin, is precisely in the same predicament: not that, at first sight, there is any consequence, or show of logic in it, “That a rill of cold water dribbling through my inward parts, should light up a torch in my Jenny’s—” ——The proposition does not strike one; on the contrary, it seems to run opposite to the natural workings of causes and effects—— But it shews the weakness and imbecility of human reason.

I wish my uncle Toby had been a water-drinker; for then the thing had been accounted for, That the first moment Widow Wadman saw him, she felt something stirring within her in his favour—Something!—something.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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