Tall, wide-leaved grasses take their places along the sides, and rushes and nodding carices in the wetter portions, mingled with the most beautiful and imposing flowers,orange lilies and larkspurs seven or eight feet high, lupines, senecios, aliums, painted-cups, many species of mimulus and pentstemon, the ample boat-leaved veratrum alba, and the magnificent alpine columbine, with spurs an inch and a half long.

In every instance like the above I have observed that the seedling Sequoia is capable of growing on both drier and wetter soil than its rivals, but requires more sunshine than they; the latter fact being clearly shown wherever a Sugar Pine or fir is growing in close contact with a Sequoia of about equal age and size, and equally exposed to the sun; the branches of the latter in such cases are always less leafy.

It is constantly asserted in a vague way that the Sierra was vastly wetter than now, and that the increasing drought will of itself extinguish Sequoia, leaving its ground to other trees supposed capable of nourishing in a drier climate.

Clay is wet and so is mud, Winter rains are wetter.

Outside it blows wetter and wetter, The tossing trees never stay still.

Outside it blows wetter and wetter, The tossing trees never stay still.

Philip came back to bed, cold and wet in body, but his heart colder still with fear, and his face wetter with tears.

His pack burros in hobbles strayed off to hunt for a wetter mouthful than the sage afforded, and gave him no concern.

Wetter-Horn, the pike of storms, etc., etc.W. W. 1793.]

Wetter-Horn, the pike of storms, etc. etc.]

Slacked lime, as we all know, is not visibly wetter than quick-lime; it crumbles to a dry white powder in spite of all the water which it contains.

He is into late childhood a bed-wetter, and steals and lies quasi-unconsciously.

After going some distance my man turned to the right for the purpose of driving him out in my direction, but our hard and disagreeable hunt was to no purpose, and we returned to camp just before dark, having passed a wetter and more uncomfortable day than any yet.

It was like riding along the outer edge of the world, When once you are thoroughly wet, it is a great satisfaction to know that you can be no wetter; and so José and I went forward in the best possible humor, finding so much diversion in our plight that the dreary leagues were considerably shortened.

Wet bushes brushed against them, soaking their thin clothes, trailers caught their heads, and the road got wetter and rougher until they came to a creek.

They had got thoroughly wet crossing the moors, and wetter still they were before they'd finished tramping the boundary lines through melting snow and slush up and down the hills.

In half an hour I was literally drenched; this being the case, I went on uncomplainingly, as it was impossible for me to become wetter than I was.

It is hardly necessary to say that Lake Wetter derives its name from the superior quality of its dampness.

Here we were, now wetter than ever, cold as Polar bears, sitting in this hygroscopic catacomb at about 2 a.m. We longed for a fire; a fire was decided on.

The man in the second cab was dressed the same as the first, he was wetter than the first, for the sleet had fallen all night, but evening dress is evening dress all the world over.

It has been almost constant fog, rain, wind; and the drip, drip, drip, of a mist that was wetter than rain.

During the night we passed a small insulated volcano that was emitting a faint smoke, and in the morning made the north side of Wetter, which ranges from 3000 to 4000 feet in height, is very barren, and apparently thinly inhabited.

Hotter and wetter I grew until I had a burning sensation all over.

I grew hotter and wetter than I had been in the manzanitas.

(a gulp at the pronoun), then, under the influence of a fear that he may think that I am driven by a hankering after creature comforts to this overture, I go on quickly, "it is not because I want to be kept dryif I were to be dragged through the sea I could not be wetter than I ambut if you wishBarbara thoughtBarbara said" I mumble off into shy incoherency.