By absorbing the superfluous moisture in the head, they clear the brain and make it more subtle.

The night was not so clear as the preceding one, and the air was chilly, with a little moisture in it.

There had been a fire in the room, so that a slight moisture dimmed the glass which protected the pastel, and on this glass, because of this moisture, he sees distinctly the trace of two lips which had been placed upon the eyes of the portrait, two small delicate lips, the sight of which makes his heart beat.

We should be sensible everywhere of what we experience on the top of the highest mountains, where the air is so thin that it yields no sufficient moisture and nourishment for the lungs.

A similar blurred condition of the superficial records of glacial action obtains throughout most of Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska, due in great part to the action of excessive moisture.

A tale of suffering brought a sudden moisture to his eyes; and a loving message from one of his poor old soldiers was seen one day to melt him to tears.

"I want to say this," observed Roland with a suspicious moisture in his fine eyes, "it was the luckiest hour of my life when I ran across this bunch of royal good fellows.

In all bodies it must have radical moisture to preserve it, that it be not consumed; to which preservation our clime, country, temperature, and the good or bad use of those six non-natural things avail much.

If there is abundant moisture, this must be re-sown.

When we are in perfect health, and the skin clean, a gentle moisture or mist continually oozes through these pores.

The leaves, twigs, branches and trunks of the trees also soak up considerable moisture.

As to periodical rises, actually observed, they are believed to be the very measure of these phenomena, namely, the fall of atmospheric moisture, and the concurrent intensity of solar heat between the unknown periods of the rise.

She blinked her eyes to press out the undue moisture, and looked at Peter as if asking what else she could do about it than to go away from the village.

Such was the discord, which did first disperse Form, order, beauty, through the universe; While dryness moisture, coldness heat resists, All that we have, and that we are, subsists; While the steep, horrid roughness of the wood Strives with the gentle calmness of the flood, 210 Such huge extremes when Nature doth unite, Wonder from thence results, from thence delight.

I saw, that although a flower may have lost its hold upon earthly moisture, it may still bloom as sweetly, fed by the dews of heaven.

Trees also give off their excess moisture through the leaves and bark.

A faint moisture dampened the old man's withered eyes.

Even when the sun rose, huge and fiery, in a haze of frozen moisture at the south, it did not seem to infuse any warmth or life into the bleak wintry landscape.

how the very sunshine gathered new splendors, the rains more fruitful moisture, until the earth poured forth an unknown fulness of life and beauty?

"In the graves of men and camels long the dates unheeded lay, Till their germs of life commanded larger life from that decay; "And the falling dews, arrested, nourished every tender shoot, While beneath, the hidden moisture gathered to each wandering root.

Assation is a concoction of the inward moisture by heat; his opposite is semiustulation.

The irrepressible look of humorous tolerance of all human frailty had suffused Poindexter's black eyes with mischievous moisture.

Ever and anon the red-hot breezes kissed the honest old man's innocent cheek, and slobbered grate capsules of odoriferous moisture, which ran in little silvery streams from his reclinin' form.

The spongy bulb was sweet; it exhaled odorous moisture.

It will be found always covered, whenever the utensil is not empty, by condensed offensive moisture.