8 examples of ditch-water in sentences
From the first, however, the proceeding's fell as flat as ditch-water.
So feeble were we that we could hardly move, nevertheless we have made a shift to crawl hither, trusting to your hospitality to recruit us from the sawdust and ditch-water which we vehemently suspect to have been our diet during the whole of our residence.
"Why, I've heard her keep a whole roomful of people laughing, and every one of them as dull as ditch-water till she came in.
No matter: I know that the Cathartic Pills may be as bad as poison to half the people who swallow them, and that the cancer cure might as well be bottled ditch-water.
The nose seems to have acquired its sensitiveness within a hundred years,the lungs their objection to foul air, and the palate its disgust at ditch-water like the Thames, within a more recent period.
And it is certainly dulldull as the last ditch-water.
I saw a private soldier emerge from the crowd with a canteen full of this worse than ditch-water.
Why, I should be as dull as ditch-water, now, if I had not your company.