water-drinker

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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)

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

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

Captain Scott, himself a water-drinker, had arranged that no intoxicating beverages, in any form, should appear in the saloon.

From Brought Home by Stretton, Hesba

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

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