water-drinker
Example Sentences
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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
"That is, become a water-drinker, you mean, Ben?"
From From Boyhood to Manhood Life of Benjamin Franklin by Thayer, William M. (William Makepeace)
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
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
Phylarchus says that Theodorus the Larissæan was a water-drinker; the man, I mean, who was always so hostile to king Antigonus.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
