water-drinker
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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
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 Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
