I intend staying here for some time, until I find water ahead or we get some rain.
Left camp with Tommy Windich to find water ahead, instructing my brother to follow on to-morrow.
Accompanied by one of the blacks, Eyre went on in advance to find water.
Should we find water, and the party reach here, there will no doubt be little difficulty in distinguishing the hills.
We hoped to find water in it, but it was dry, and fearing we should not be able to reach water before dark if we proceeded in this direction, we thought it better to return to our camp.
We were obliged this morning to start without our breakfast, having no bread baked, and being unable to find water.
The pork had excited our thirst, and Rip ran down, hoping to find water in it; but it was empty.
I had again to choose between the chance of success or disaster, as on the first occasion; if I went on and should happen to find water, all for the time would be well, if not, destruction would have been inevitable.
Having told Ben of the means we had taken to find water, we advised him to come back with us and get a drink.
We had an orange apiece remaining, and that was all on which we could depend for quenching our thirst till we could reach the shore; and perhaps even then we might be unable to find water.
You will easily distinguish our spoor, and we will fire off our pieces to show you our whereabouts, should we find water," he said.
We can't fail in that way, I hope, to find water," observed Percy.
Trusting to Jan's sagacity to find water, we proceeded in good spirits.
Notwithstanding that Jan repeatedly exclaimed, "Find water soon!
Jan had evidently mistaken the road, and passed the spot where he had expected to find water.
However, I'll stay in camp and try to endure my thirst until those fellows come back--and they're pretty sure to find water.
Well," he remarked, "first thing we got to do now is to find water.
If I keep along the edge of the hills where these trails are," muttered the dentist, "I ought to find water up in the arroyos from time to time.
The country travelled through would be hard, and it would be difficult to find water for so many men and horses.
A shallow creek appeared soon thereafter on our right, in which our guide had expected to find water, but was disappointed; cattle having recently drank up there, what had been a large pond when he was there formerly.
We found a more direct route than along the creek, to my pond of yesterday, where we encamped, thankful to find waterat such a convenient distance, during such a dry season.
Mightiness, a woman of the Hebrews escaped from Bethulia to find water!
I have heard how you have escaped out of Bethulia and come hither in order to find water.
To find water, and to have speech with the most illustrious Prince.
As we had been fortunate enough to find water at the contact of the primitive and basaltic formation, I wished to follow the same line of contact as long as it would not carry us much out of our course.
I travelled with my whole party over the ground which I had reconnoitred yesterday, and had to go a considerable distance farther to find water.
When we came down from among the bare clay buttes the trail ran along a little stream and we began to see signs of life,--a coyote first, then a queer bird, trying to find water enough to swim in.
It seemed foolish to expect to find water in that car out there in the burning sandy waste, and the nearer we came to it the more unreasonable it appeared.
Any one expecting to find water in these creeks below the towns is usually a tenderfoot, and needs a water barrel, and some good advice.
It is only at or near ridges in this strange region that the traveller can expect to find water, as in the sandy beds of scrub intervening between them, water would simply sink away.
I didn't come here to find water, I came here to die, and you said you'd come and die too.
It looked high and rugged, and I thought to find water in some rock-hole or crevice about it.
One has only to notice the numerous twists and turns in his route to understand that no pains were spared to find water, and thus from rock-hole to rock-hole he wound his way across.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "find water" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
