The person who was tested had to drink the poison water.

Before I had gone a mile from camp, I came to the foot of a white cascade that beats its way down a rugged gorge in the cañon wall, from a height of about nine hundred feet, and pours its throbbing waters into the Tuolumne.

The thirsty mountaineer knows well that in every Sequoia grove he will find running water, but it is a mistake to suppose that the water is the cause of the grove being there; on the contrary, the grove is the cause of the water being there.

O'Flynn was expected to keep the well-hole in the river chopped open and to bring up water every day.

Observing that his own sloop, which was still fit for action, drew more water than the pirate's, he ordered all her ballast to be thrown out, and, directing his men to conceal themselves between decks, took the helm in person, and steered directly aboard of his antagonist, who continued inextricably fixed on the shoal.

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Honest, ma, if you carry that ice-water up to Katz to-night on the sly, with that big son of hers to come down and get it, II'll go right up and tell her what I think of her if she leaves to-morrow.

Then I took the waters in the Assembly Room.

He must do something for a living, and he thought that throwing dirty water was as good an occupation as any other.

" A second, "She goes to fetch water.

It is not more than 30 or 40 feet wide at the mouth, and contains only a little clear, brownish water.

And you dove into the small boat, trying to reach the water.

"If I had something to hold enough water," muttered he, "I'd like to float it.

Brushed and dusted the room, gave fresh water to the flowers, and then went to gardening.

A small lake nestles in the bottom of it, from which I got water for my tea, and a storm-beaten thicket near by furnished abundance of resiny fire-wood.

It is in meadows of this sort that the mountain beaver (Haplodon) loves to make his home, excavating snug chambers beneath the sod, digging canals, turning the underground waters from channel to channel to suit his convenience, and feeding the vegetation.

The fly had scarcely touched the water when a trout, weighing a pound or over, struck it with a rush that carried him clear out of the water.

"Going all right," he reported, as he struck the water.

Before the war there wasn't a year I didn't cross the water twice, maybe three times, for the firm.

Watt had recently discovered the potency of steam vapour as a motive power; but its only use at first was for pumping water out of the mines.

When the blades left the water, the engines raced with a horrible din and he must cut off steam.

When the teams came up we obtained some water and bandages with which to dress Wood's wound, which had become quite inflamed and painful, and we then put him into one of the wagons.

As our object was rather to enjoy the music of the chase, than to capture the deer, they shouted and hallooed as he entered the water, and he wheeled back, and went tearing in huge affright through the woods, up the island again.

He travelled all his days, and when his eyes were dim with age he saw a great water.

It is a hard lot to be cooped up in the city, vegitating, as it were, in the shade, where there is no grass for their little feet to press, no fences to climb, or fields to ramble over, or brooks to wade, or running water on which to float chips, and wherein to watch the little chubs and shiners dancing and playing about, or fresh pure air to breathe, or birds to listen to.