A sergeant came up then and invited us to go with him, in order that we might escape a wetting.

The rain poured, and I got a good wetting....

As we gradually progressed, the snow occupied the greater part of the way, and we were forced to betake ourselves to the extreme edge; and when at last we emerged into the Vallée de Lienz, trees and branches had to be scrambled over to avoid a wetting, although we were obliged to cross one or two drifts after all.

Do you mind a wetting!"

The unfortunate saddle and little trunk were then rescued, but not until they had received a pretty thorough wetting.

"It'll cost us only a wetting.

Once or twice a boat would capsize, giving the occupants a severe wetting, but as river costumes are always washable and the river is not deep, no harm ever seemed to come of these aquatic diversions.

The wax also protects it afterwards, and keeps the wet from rotting it.

However, the rain was still falling, though without violence, when we came out of the church; so we waited awhile in the porch till the clouds had rolled away, many others who did not love a wetting doing the same as we, and there was much talking.

I knew that a slip might mean a wetting.

He could have waded it as the water would not rise past his waist, but he did not like the look of the chill current, and he did not want another wetting on a winter day.

Wherever the sickest or most helpless man chanced to be, there I held my watch, often visiting the other rooms to see that the general watchman of the ward did his duty by the fires and the wounds, the latter needing constant wetting.

At last, wiping the wet from my brow, I took my place in the ring.

I might have been saved easily enough, and Mr. Ferrars need have suffered no inconvenience save a wetting, but for my own fault; for he was there long before the water reached the place where I had fallen."

Articles too valuable to be destroyed should be treated as follows: (a) Cotton, linen, flannels, blankets, etc., should be treated with the boiling-hot zinc solution; introduce piece by piece, secure thorough wetting, and boil for at least half an hour.

But even to get soaking wet could not utterly spoil the road to Posilipo.

It might mean a different story, though, for those who are already sopping up the wet.

The regiment wrapped themselves in their blankets and took their wetting with more or less satisfaction.

Such a cunning fellow would know how to escape a wet back.

If we look earnestly enough at the brightness which is on the other side of the glass, we shall forget the wet and not feel the cold.