Sailing with their two ships in 1699, they were caught in the "strong, muddy current of fresh water," which La Salle had unluckily passed without seeing.
Doubtless there are moments when excessive heat, a want of fresh water, and other privations remind one that life is a toil; but these drawbacks are of short duration.
I lit the fire, and put into a pot three tablespoonfuls of finely ground coffee and two cups of fresh water.
He took a half-bucket of fresh water, and into this he put a can of soup.
The last two were to be mixed to sauce the dishes, and the empty one filled with fresh water for a finger-bowl.
It must be from some high ranges to the north-west, or a large body offresh water lying on elevated ground.
We could find no fresh water on our way, but plenty of salt and brackish in the creek which we first struck at six miles from the Emerald Springs.
To a hungry man they were very palatable, and, had they been boiled in fresh water, would have made a good vegetable.
This morning we have searched all round, but can find no fresh water, although there are numerous places that would retain water if any quantity had fallen.
I was right in my opinion; no fresh water to be found; nothing but salt, salter than the sea.
It has no fresh water, the inhabitants depending entirely on cisterns and casks in which they preserve the rain; neither has it any lake, but several salt ponds, which furnish the sole production of the island.
When the Indians had been put to flight, he proceeded up the river in quest of fresh water, disregarding the warnings of those on shore, that he might be cut off by the enemy in their canoes.
He also sent a present to the king of a fine branch of coral.
Our baggage was accordingly carried across the river on rafts, and Marcus desired me to keep always along with him and the Tartar ambassador, named Auchioli.
The plain in which we found prince Bendian, is surrounded by very fine trees, resembling box, but much more lofty.
Indeed the sequel immediately justifies this suspicion, as the subsequent dates are more distant than the travelling days of the text would warrant.
In that of Arguin there is plenty of fresh water, but there is none in any of the others.
In the haven of Truxillo, there is a lake of fresh water, the bottom of which is good hard salt; and in the Andes, beyond Xauxa, there is a fresh water river which flows over a bottom of white salt.
The Shore of the bay is all a fine sandy beach, behind which runs a river of Fresh Water, so that any Number of Ships might Water here without discommoding one another.
It is pretty large, and affords good Anchorage in 20 and 25 fathoms, and there is no want of fresh Water.
This harbour, tho' but small, yet it is preferable to any on the Island, on account of the easy getting of fresh Water, and being seated in the most fertile part of the Island.
He said that was true; so he brought a large basket of rusk or biscuit, and three jars of fresh water, into the boat.
It is the same as the action of the carburetted clay of the gypseous grottoes, and of the great chambers (sinkwerke) dug in mines of fossil salt which are worked by the introduction of fresh water.
It prefers salt to fresh water; and flourishes less inland, where the air is not loaded with saline particles, than on the shore.
It had been believed for ages, that the peninsula of Araya was entirely destitute of springs of fresh water; but in 1797, after many useless researches, the inhabitants of Maniquarez succeeded in discovering some.
He likewise observed that there was so copious a discharge of fresh water, that it altered the colour and the taste of the sea.
The sea-fish that we saw here (for here was no river, land or pond of fresh water to be seen) are chiefly sharks.
At last I took two men with me, and went in the afternoon along by the sea-side, purposely to catch one of them, if I could, of whom I might learn where they got their fresh water.
Yet still I was for standing farther into the bay, partly because I had a mind to increase my stock of fresh water, which was begun to be low, and partly for the sake of discovering this part of the coast.
Ready returned on board as fast as he could, and brought on shore two kegs of fresh water, which he and William rolled up to the tent.
I think, sir, the first object is to have a good supply of fresh water; and I therefore wish you and William - Here he is.
But first we must make a proper well at the spring, so as to have plenty of fresh water: now there's enough for a year's hard work at least.
The nutmeg pigeon resorts to islands where there is no fresh water, and builds a rude platform of twigs, and occasionally of leaves, on all sorts of trees, in all sorts of localities.
Then it commonly selects the denser scrub or the mangroves, most probably guided by their contiguity to fresh water.
Plants growing either in the sea, fresh water, or on damp ground, of a gelatinous substance and filamentous structure.
Plants growing in the sea or fresh water, coated by gelatinous substance; either filiform or a number of filaments being connected together constituting gelatinous, definitely formed, or shapeless fronds or masses.
These are plants growing in sea or fresh water, or on damp surfaces, with a filamentous, or more rarely a leaf-like pulverulent or gelatinous thallus; the last two forms essentially microscopic.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fresh water" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
