water-drinker

Example Sentences

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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.

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

The strength, health, tact, and enterprise of the "water-drinker" convinced them that he was right.

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

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

From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved

We had an exquisite from St Mary Hall, a pea-coated Brazenose boatman, a philosophical water-drinker and union-debater from Balliol, and a two bottle man from Christ Church.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 by Various