water-drinker
Example Sentences
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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
Its author, Samuel Richardson, was a middle-aged London printer, a vegetarian and water-drinker, a worthy, domesticated, fussy, and highly-nervous little man.
From Fielding by Dobson, Austin
He glanced at the thin and rather bloodless face, and at the high cheekbones of the water-drinker as he spoke.
From The Nebuly Coat by Falkner, John Meade
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
"That is, become a water-drinker, you mean, Ben?"
From From Boyhood to Manhood Life of Benjamin Franklin by Thayer, William M. (William Makepeace)
