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Example sentences for "drink water"

  • They not only considered it a hardship to be deprived of their accustomed drinks, but also they had been trained to consider it dangerous to health to drink water.

  • Governor Bradford of the Pilgrims in Massachusetts complained loudly and frequently of this deprivation while the Salem minister, Higginson, in 1629, boasted of his ability to drink water.

  • As was stated above, before coming to this country the colonists were unaccustomed to the use of water as a constant beverage and upon arriving in America they complained bitterly at having to drink water.

  • And suspecting that the wild elephants would come there to drink water, he remained in concealment with his bow, in order to kill them.

  • That lion, going one day to the bank of the Yamuna to drink water, heard close to him the roar of that bull Sanjivaka.

  • When a Highlander goes to bathe or to drink water out of a consecrated fountain, he must always approach by going round the place from East to West on the South side, in imitation of the apparent diurnal motion of the sun.

  • And two and three cities went to one city to drink water, and were not filled: yet you returned not to me, saith the Lord.

  • Drink water out of thy own cistern, and the streams of thy own well: 5:16.

  • The she-dragon flew to the blue sea to drink water, and he went on.

  • Again she flew off to the blue sea to drink water; while she drank her fill, they proceeded still further.

  • Again the she-dragon flew to the blue sea to drink water, and they proceeded further.

  • The she-dragon flew off to the blue sea to drink water, and they proceeded further.

  • A man is not fond of wine who has been used from his earliest years to drink water.

  • He asserts also that all the Spaniards drink water, though they are the richest of all men, for they have the greatest abundance of gold and silver in their country.

  • But one ought to avoid thick perfumes, and to drink water which is thin and transparent, and which in respect of weight is light, and which has no earthy particles in it.

  • When the former chief fled to Maradee, he stopped to drink water at Korgum; but the sultan refused to grant him permission.

  • The Sultan of Zinder besieged one town four days, and would not allow the people to drink water.

  • As to the fruit itself, I have not yet acquired the taste; it is only agreeable if you are thirsty, and after chewing it drink water.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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