water-drinker

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True, my hepatic apparatus, as the doctors grandly call the liver, had got miserably out of gear, though I was a water-drinker, and though I had a wholesome horror of tropical sunshine.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 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

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)

The water-drinker filled the whole room with water, and they went into another.

From Armenian Literature by Anonymous

What," said the old dame, as she handed it to her, "ye are a water-drinker, are ye?

From Fifty-Two Stories For Girls by Miles, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry)