38 Words to use with well

The robber's name makes nine men out of ten your secret well-wishers; the deed makes you all men's enemy.

"No, I can't conceive a sillier paradox than 'A babe in the house is a well-spring of joy.'

So gloom not, lad, Belsaye is safe, the sun shineth and behold my arm'tis well-nigh healed, thanks toto skilful nursing" "Of the Duchess Helen, Benedict?" "Haso hast found it outat last, lad" "Knew you she was here?" "Aye, verily.

The wells of the other two routes are known to the bordering tribes alone, who, when they have taken a supply of water, cover them up with sand, previously laying a camel-skin over the well-mouth, to prevent the sand falling into the water, so that, while dying with thirst, you might be standing on a well and be none the wiser.

It was also found that deepening the well had caused the water to become brackish, so much so that we had to bring water by boat from the spring at which the ship had been filled up; the horses however still managed to drink the well-water, although it produced great thirst.

With her went the interval of peace; for past the well-curb came another figure, scuffing slowly toward the light.

Here our guide took another key, and, while the door was being opened, Elzevir whispered to me, 'It is the well-house,' and my pulse beat quick to think we were so near our goal.

I looked quickly about, and perceiving that I was not in sight of any one, I got into the well and went down to the bottom, assisting my descent by the well-rope.

It was not a "sheep fallen into a pit," only a disturbed well-sweep.

Then he had inquired, and a female fellow-passenger had informed him that she was a Mrs. Smith,that she had seen better days, but had been married to a ne'er-do-well husband, who had drank himself to death within a year of their marriage, and that she was now going out to the colony, probably,so the old lady said who was the informant,in search of a second husband.

From a knowledge of this fact, the fishermen of cod are enabled to preserve them alive for a considerable time in their well-boats.

There is a vicious Terror of being blamed in some well-inclin'd People, and a wicked Pleasure in suppressing them in others; both which I recommend to your Spectatorial Wisdom to animadvert upon; and if you can be successful in it, I need not say how much you will deserve of the Town; but new Toasts will owe to you their Beauty, and new Wits their Fame.

He is the first tincture and rudiment of a writer, dipped as yet in the preparative blue, like an almanac well-willer.

One well-head of Irish discontent was English prejudice, which refuses to listen to any complaint till it threatens to become dangerous.

This central and vital beauty he had cultivated in a very diversified life, and he looked with confidence for the prize which is laid up for the well-doer.

whose cheeks unite The differing titles of the red and white; Who Heaven's alternate beauty well display, The blush of morning, and the milky way; Whose face is Paradise, but fenced from sin: For God in either eye has placed a cherubin.

Well-meaners think no harm; but for the rest, Things sacred they pervert, and silence is the best.

EUMENIDES (i. e. the Well-meaning), a name given to the ERINNYES (q. v.) or Furies, from a wholesome and prudent dread of calling them by their true name.

There's a hail-fellow-well-metness about enthusiastic bicyclists, and Emma is intensely enthusiastic.

Now that the upstart day is dumb, One hears from the still earth a whispering throng Of forces animate, with murmured song Joining the zephyrs' well-attunèd hum.

In spite of his fierce impatience to get well, in order to engage in the search for Marianan impatience which was in itself sufficient to militate against his well-beinghe did make considerable progress on the road to recovery.

" Then solemnly the knights, with sacred awe, Uncovered saintly Titurel, and looked Once more upon that well-belovèd face, And there was sound of weeping everywhere.

And if I fit thee not, then fit not me: I long the truth of this wells power to see.

The Spartan's legs trembled when Mikhalevich led him into the Korobines' not over-well furnished drawing-room, and introduced him to its occupants.

As soon as I saw what they were at, and that the bucket was safe fixed, I laid hold of the well-chain, and climbing up by it swung myself on to the top of the parapet, being eager to help Elzevir, and get the turnkey gagged and bound while we made our escape.

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