water-drinker

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Chesterfield, another of the contributors to The World, inserted in it a short character of him under the name of Cantabrigiensis, introduced by an encomium on his temperance; for he was a water-drinker.

From Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives by Cary, Henry Francis

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

From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved

I had never heard of hydropathy, but I was heartily willing to sing its praises, and I have ever since been a resolute water-drinker.

From Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures by Groome, William H. C.

You know I am a water-drinker; give me only the pure limpid stream, and a child may lead me.

From Frank Mildmay Or, the Naval Officer by Marryat, Frederick

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