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
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 Pythermus, in his account of the tyrants of Piræus, mentions Glaucon as having been a water-drinker.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
A water-drinker, like Sir Thomas More, was the rarest of exceptions.
From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved
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
