Handy Solomon continually wetted his lips, like an animal licking its chops.

It was a hopelessly wet day, with a perpetual drizzling rain and a leaden-gray sky; weather which seemed to harmonise well enough with the pervading gloom of Gilbert's thoughts as he stood by the fire, leaning against an angle of the mantelpiece, and watching Marian's needle moving monotonously in and out of the canvas.

How true is the following passage: "Land, however, though it does not contain such a superabundance of water as to obstruct arable culture, may nevertheless, by its inherent wetness, prevent or retard the luxuriant growth of useful plants, as much as decidedly wet land.

One evening about the holidays, miserably wet, and offering its squalid contrast to the season, Johnnie, plodding along between the two little girls, with Pony and Milo following, met Gray Stoddard face to face.

Blanch the almonds, and dry them thoroughly; put them into a mortar, and pound them well, wetting them gradually with the whites of 2 eggs.

Steeping mine eyes within their chilly wet, The care I have of wife and daughter both, Must on your wisdom happily rely.

The road was rutted, poached deep where wet and beaten hard where dry, or pulverized into dust by the stream of emigration.

How deliciously wet it looked in the shadow I-how it caught the sun the moment it left the chamber, grew merry, and trotted and trolled and cantered along!

It was July, but the weather was desperately wet.

The temperature remains 33°, and everything is disgustingly wet.

It was most inconvenient of her, as she wetted our mutual sleeping apartment dreadfully.

Next day, I dutifully wet the construction twice as instructed in order to have the cement set.

If men could bear a quiet drenching in the streets, could leave their homes for the purpose of congregating on the sides of parapets, in order to make a descent upon places essentially "wet," we fancied that moderately inclement weather could not, after all, be set down as the real reason for a thin congregation at St. Lukes.

Near at hand were the black rocks, eternally wet and smoking with the fog and gale; beyond towered the icebergs, pale, cold, glittering like spires of silver in the moonlight; far away, like a vague shadow, a handful of little gray houses clung like barnacles to the base of a great bare hill whose foot was in the sea and whose head wavered among the clouds of heaven.

" It was, indeed, Fairley, exceedingly wet, exceedingly bedraggled, exceedingly sponged out as to color, and exceedingly profane.

"You are fearfully wet," he said.

"You'll make yourself most frightfully wet," said Stafford.

So far the Siwash recounted his legend without the palisades of Fort Nisqually, and motioning, in expressive pantomime, at the close, that he was dry with big talk and would gladly "wet his whistle.

He appeared in her presence with his hair hastily wetted and smoothed by hand, breathless, and clinging to his hat brim as though it was a life-belt, and he stumbled at the carpet edge out of sheer distress of mind.

Idly he wetted his finger, and held it up.

It had been too impossibly wet to go on, and they had sent the ladies back in the motors and had come across the park on their way home, and, hearing the sound of music, had glanced in.

Won't wet through, no matter how it rain.

It is the custom of some gentlemen to wet a corner of the napkin; but the hostess, whose behaviour will set the tone to all the ladies present, will merely wet the tips of her fingers, which will serve all the purposes required.

In answer to inquiries the Champion laughingly said, "he guessed this was a mighty wet country for a dry man," and proceeded to the refreshment-room, where he "asked a p'leece-man"oh no, not at all, but, "Deep as the rolling Zuyder Zee, he drank the foaming juice of Grapes."

She was a pretty girl, slim and young, and she had taken her wetting good-naturedly.