Were it only on the machines and clothing that the dampness and mold settle, it would not be so bad; but we feel that this same clammy mold is going down into our very bones and marrow, gradually sapping their vigor and strength.
The presence of this dampness makes it very hard to keep things clean and free from rust and mold.
Having closed his door cautiously, he sat down by the open window, enjoying the soothing dampness of the fog as it came rolling in laden with the pungent fragrance of the salt marshes.
Mr. Flint ought to have said something civil; but he only turned to Jimmy and proposed that they go out and gather up the rockets before the dampnessspoiled the powder.
Two evils are to be guarded against, dampness and suffocation.
After they are thoroughly dry, remove them into a dry room, and lay in heaps, and not stir unless they are gathering dampness that will change their color; then spread them.
Dampness is very injurious to bees on other accounts.
Careful hands have taken the dampness out of the earth with thyme; on the coffin they have thrown roses, narcissus, violets.
We feel the shadow of a dream in our wine-glass, and something that is earth in our flesh feels the dampness of the garden like a caress.
She stood for a long time, shivering with the cold dampnessof the atmosphere, but not even conscious that she was cold, looking at a dilapidated boat that lay upon the rugged beach.
But even these men recoiled when they felt the cold dampness of the artist's hands, and saw that he had been frightened.
The dampness of the leaves tends to attract malaria.
The dampness made them shudder as they stood there amidst the dilapidated walls and the dust of the old rubbish piled upon either side.
A cold light fell from the high windows of the building and constant dampness reigned there, with the mouldy smell like that of a cellar dripping with water.
So fine has the weather been so far, that all belonging to the cabin have constantly slept on deck; an awning has been extended to protect from the sun by day and the dampness by night.
The dampness brought on a chilliness that made us have fires in each of the great cabins.
More especially in any view of British agriculture, whether old or new, and in any estimate of its theories or progress, due consideration must be had for the generous dampness of the British atmosphere.
At great heights, there is never dampness enough to allow the fine snow-crystals to coalesce and form what are called "snow-flakes.
On that day the thermometer fell several degrees; the wind shifted to the southward, and the heavy gusts, having passed over the ice, discharged themselves of their dampnessunder the form of a thick snow.
The parched banks and strips of dry fields showed through the fog (for its dampness did not cure the arid soil of the Campagna).
A genial dampness pervaded the earth beneath; grasses grew, and there were living creatures in the shade.
It was indeed cold, with a kind of clinging and grasping chill that was not to be expressed in degrees of heat, but in dampness perhaps, or perhaps in some subtler influence of the air.
Little rivulets of mere dampness ran in among the under moss, and such very small hidden flowers as there were drooped with the surfeit of moisture.
Indeed, my fasting, and the rare thin air of the height, the chill and the dampness that had soaked my thin clothes through and through, quite lowered my blood and left it piano, whimpering and irresolute.
So we crawled into bed, out of the wind and where the spruce branches partly sheltered us, and our tarps kept the dampness out and the wind, too.
As regards Primrose Hill and the Isle of Dogs, the want of level space on the former, and the objectionable situation and dampness of the latter, render them so obviously unsuitable as to make any particular observations unnecessary.
The dampness was that dreadful sometimes it just ruined her clothes, and even made her hoarse.
She had listened to what he had said about the dampness and gloom of the chapel.
Crossing the threshold, he went from a world of dampnessand chill into the warmth and cheer of an old-fashioned fish house.
Everybody knows that I first went to Germany for the baths, and I can say what is true,--that the dampness here disagrees with me, with my throat.
It is best to make rain-kites of oil-skin or paraffine paper, as the ordinary paper or cloth becomes saturated with the dampness and very heavy, thus lessening the buoyancy of the line.
So penetrating is the dampness of clouds, even without a rain-storm, that the wooden frames sometimes become warped and the paste seams soak open.
The light, the sunshine, the soft outlines of the scrub pines in the distance, the freedom and openness of the mountains seemed to instill into him a courage he could not feel down there in the dampness and darkness of the tunnel.
When about fifty years old he found that the heat and dampness of the tropical climate were undermining his health and that he must heed the warnings of nature.
He would have been glad to lie down and sleep until morning, but the uncomfortable dampness of the floor and the fear of catching a bad cold caused him to remain erect.
Here we camped in the dense forest, and our roaring fire, built high with great logs, soon drove away the chill and dampness of the rainy night.
If sails are furled in hard rolls the dampness in the canvas will cause them to sweat and rot; canvas to keep good wants the air.
Use blocks with a larger swallow than the rope size you intend to run through them, then the rope won't stick when it gets swollen with dampnessor rain.
He now turned sharply, facing into a narrow street, one of the old native thoroughfares, bordered by walls of brick and stone where moss spread and dampness oozed.
The very air of the room held in solution, with its blue smoke, the dampness of foreboding.
She knew that it was still dark, both from the way the man walked and from the cool dampness of the atmosphere with which she was familiar.
And the powerful odors that impregnated the atmosphere of the cellar and rendered it foul to suffocation--dampness and dog and dregs of wine, and garlic and decaying vegetables--became the languorous breath of June flowers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dampness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: damp; dampness; humor; perspiration; rainfall; wet
