They require plenty of light while growing, and to be kept moderately moist at the roots.

On her knees before an oven that billowed forth hotly into her face, Mrs. Kantor, fairly fat and not yet forty, and at the immemorial task of plumbing a delicately swelling layer-cake with broom-straw, raised her face, reddened and faintly moist.

We were brought up to believe that in the Carboniferous, or coal-bearing era, the atmosphere was intensely moist and hot, and overcharged with carbonic acid, which had been poured out from the interior of the planet by volcanic eruptions, or by some other convulsion.

Even her own eyes were suspiciously moist as she dragged the couple off to dine with her.

At the door, Miss Kantor met her brother, her eyes as sweetly moist as her kiss.