water-drinker
Example Sentences
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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
The man said this with a sneer, for he knew that the captain had taken nothing since he entered the house, and was aware, moreover, that he was a water-drinker.
From The Lifeboat by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
Imagination fails to grasp either of them in the r�le of a water-drinker.
From Atlantic Classics by Various
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 Lever, Charles James
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
