water-drinker

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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

Gentlemen, you are aware that our honored guest is a water-drinker.

From Recollections of a Long Life An Autobiography by Cuyler, Theodore Ledyard

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 vegetable and milk eater, and water-drinker, do not need them.

From Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

For a short time also in 1778 Boswell was a water-drinker, Post, April 28, 1778.

From Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman