water-drinker

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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

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

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

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

I took it out in honor of Lendrick, but he is a water-drinker.

From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. by Lever, Charles James

Being a water-drinker at home, from motives of prudence, not to say necessity, it did not require much in the way of stimulus to render poor little Joel addle-headed.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various