water-drinker

Example Sentences

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They called him the "American water-drinker," but there came a day when he performed a feat that became the admiration of the young London printers.

From True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin by Pierce, H. Winthrop

Captain Scott, himself a water-drinker, had arranged that no intoxicating beverages, in any form, should appear in the saloon.

From Brought Home by Stretton, Hesba

He was not only, I soon discovered, a water-drinker, but a strict "vegetarian" also; to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the almost preternatural clearness, volubility, and sensitiveness of his mind.

From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Hughes, Thomas

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

From Atlantic Classics by Various

I am a rather expensive man to sit beside, and to one like you especially so, for you seem to be a water-drinker.

From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Holmes, Daniel Turner