water-drinker
Example Sentences
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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
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
A water-drinker in India is always a phenomenon, but a water-drinker who did the thing so artistically was such a manifestation as I had never seen.
From Mr. Isaacs by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
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
The strength, health, tact, and enterprise of the "water-drinker" convinced them that he was right.
From From Boyhood to Manhood Life of Benjamin Franklin by Thayer, William M. (William Makepeace)