609 examples of watery in sentences

Quadrupeds are forced to take refuge on the highest trees: large lizards, agoutis, and pecaries quit their watery dens and remain on the branches.

But it would not do to talk in my watery home as if I had no belief in mermaids, because, you see, as most fishes have never been with Folks, and learned a thing or two from them, they do not know any better than to believe in these sweet, dangerous creatures.

Perhaps you did not know that there are fair and beautiful gardens in my watery home.

The thin, watery mixture, or grey "stodgy" mass which is sometimes served with cauliflower or parsnips, even where the other viands are fairly well cooked and served, is certainly enough to condemn "vegetables."

Perhaps the very sound that awoke him was the one he wished to shun; at the next step it became more distinct,a child's voice singing some tuneless song; and directly a tiny apparition appeared before him, as if it had taken shape, with its wide, light eyes and corn-silk hair, from the most wan and watery of sunbeams.

The sun shone with a pale, watery gleam, grey clouds were piled along the horizon, and a moaning wind crept through the pine trees, made the birch leaves quiver, and thinned the foliage of the alders at the foot of the rapids.

In general, those should be suspected which grow in caverns and subterranean passages, on animal matter undergoing putrefaction, as well as those whose flesh is soft or watery.

"I'm a pore swimmer, but I made up my mind either to save 'im or else go down to a watery grave myself.

Oh, listen to it!" He declaimed this, with some pauses: "TO MY RELATIVE, K. S. "While I am at my watery work All up and down the bay, I think about my brother Kirk A million times a day.

And it was written in his wistful little watery eyes, told by his unconquerable tail, that with all his dog's heart he yearned to be Somebody's dog.

In due course the Chickamin bore in under Halfway Point, opened out a sheltered bight where the watery commotion outside raised but a faint ripple, and drew in alongside a float.

I performed all evolutions there by means of that divine Soul which I fashioned there, and which had remained inoperative in the watery abyss.

Thou didst create the earth, thou didst fashion man, thou didst make the watery abyss of the sky, thou didst form Hapi (i.e., the Nile), thou didst create the great deep, and thou dost give life unto all that therein is.

Thou dost pass over and dost travel through untold spaces [requiring] millions and hundreds of thousands of years [to pass over]; thou passest through them in peace, and thou steerest thy way across the watery abyss to the place which thou lovest; this thou doest in one little moment of time, and then thou dost sink down and dost make an end of the hours.

From the gallery above I was looking down upon the wreck, lit up by the lurid light of some dozen torches, when, with a crash like thunder, she went clean over and broke into a thousand pieces; eighty head of cattle, fastened by the horns, vainly struggled to escape a watery grave.

[Footnote R: Vide chapter on "Watery Highways."]

I resolved to try this method, and also the watery infusion; and, moreover, the natural expressed juice fortified with glycerin.

The mullein plant boiled in milk is liked by the patients; in watery infusion it is disagreeable, and the succus is still more so.

Lewaschew and Klikowitch, from experiments upon dogs, conclude that the use of ordinary alkaline mineral waters was to increase the quantity of bile and to make it more fluid and watery.

Without pay the men, of course, were cut off from even the sour and watery delights of the beer sold in the local estaminets, which abound in the villages where the troops are billeted in reserve some miles behind the firing line.

We were very much hurt to have them buried in a watery grave; we mourned their loss; night and day they were not out of our minds.

I come, thy Genius, to command thy stay; Trust not the winds, for fatal is the day, And death unhoped attends the watery way.

They shouted and made unavailing signals to distant boats that disappeared from the great watery expanse without ever seeing them.

"Why should you be distressed, mademoiselle," said the old woman, peering up into my face from beneath her majenta bonnet with her little watery brown eyes, "such things will go into books and be history a few years hence.

Though depleted by the city's present drainage system and most likely poisoned by it as well, its waters still move seaward in a course almost due easterly, and empty into Chef Menteur, one of the watery threads of a tangled skein of "passes" between the lakes and the open Gulf.

609 examples of  watery  in sentences