water-drinker
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Wine of every kind, for instance, was largely sent to one who was a confirmed water-drinker, and who, except when obliged by the impure state of the water, never ventured to taste wine.
From Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General by Charles James Lever
The vegetable and milk eater, and water-drinker, do not need them.
From Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
We had an exquisite from St Mary Hall, a pea-coated Brazenose boatman, a philosophical water-drinker and union-debater from Balliol, and a two bottle man from Christ Church.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 by Various
For a short time also in 1778 Boswell was a water-drinker, Post, April 28, 1778.
From Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 by George Birkbeck Norman Hill
Captain Scott, himself a water-drinker, had arranged that no intoxicating beverages, in any form, should appear in the saloon.
From Brought Home by Hesba Stretton
