water-drinker

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A water-drinker, like Sir Thomas More, was the rarest of exceptions.

From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved

"That is, become a water-drinker, you mean, Ben?"

From From Boyhood to Manhood Life of Benjamin Franklin by Thayer, William M. (William Makepeace)

Being a water-drinker at home, from motives of prudence, not to say necessity, it did not require much in the way of stimulus to render poor little Joel addle-headed.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 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

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