But she stepped back, her lips parted, her great eyes humid and compelling, her hand raised warningly.
Bill,” said the big man, his blue eyeshumid with feeling, “it looks as though poor old Noah went with the schooner.
Then he found himself near the deep pond at the entry of the place, out of which more than one young creature had been drawn out, who preferred this humid death to sitting on the stool of penitent sinners or to church discipline.
But others came before the gentleman, and the bride sprang into the Heidenloch, and that was too humid a bride-chamber for Sir Parson.
The moon had reached its highest point, and cast its cold rays through the square aperture on the humid wall.
The hot, humid haze that poured down from the yellow clouds made the metal surface a little hell.
Within the borders of Arizona are areas representative of every life zone save the humid tropical.
There are also horses which shed their hoofs; this usually happens in humid marshy countries, such as Holland.
They avoid humid and marshy fields, or rich pastures: they are seldom kept on flat lands, because it does not agree with them, and it makes their flesh ill-tasted.
Subsequently, as the climate of the plains assumed a colder and more humid character, they retired before the invading forests to the high mountains.
Forests also occur on the humid slopes of mountain ranges up to a certain elevation.
Death lies brooding in the humid air, Plague, in dark graves, piles up treasures fair, And its voice exultingly raises.
Before truth causes her triumphant light to penetrate into the depths of the heart, poetry intercepts her rays, and the summits of humanity shine in a bright light, while a dark and humid night still hangs over the valleys.
If these things dry up it is because a continuous heat vaporizes thehumid parts.
Tommy debated the story grimly as he stood guard in the Tube in the humid jungle night.
The ground was partly obscured by the hazy, humid atmosphere, but glinting sun-reflections from the city guided them.
A candle sheds its sickly light upon the humid walls; faintly it discloses the face of Daddy Bob, immersed in tears, watching intently over the foot of the cot.
A fotid stench pervaded the atmosphere of the gloomy cell; it is death spreading itshumid malaria.
They move slowly and noiselessly up the aisle, the humid atmosphere of which, pregnant with death, sickens as it steals into the very blood.
A father hast thou driven within the humid wall of a prison, because he would repent and acknowledge his child.
They could be seen to lengthen as there humid bases widened.
O wonderful nineteenth century, in whose grey humiddusk you and I are lucky enough to live!
Michael could feel the humid fog lying upon Lily's sleeve, and when he drew her cheek to his own it was bedewed with the falling night.
If you would always speak so kindly"--her eyes became humidbut not tearful.
I read it in your betraying blush and in your humid eyes.
I can see even now the honest eyes of the good old man humid for a moment as he contemplated his own loss, and I can hear his voice shake a little at thinking of the happiness he designed for his ward.
Wind-fertilised trees and plants, abundant inhumid and temperate regions.
By this process the waters of the main river are impounded in essentially the same manner as are the rivers of humid regions by the deltas of their tributaries.
Thus the blowing in of sand and dust carried for long distances in the air, a by no means negligible factor even in humid regions, here assumes large importance.
It is characteristic of erosion and deposition within humid regions that all outlines become softened into flowing curves, due to the protective mat of vegetation.
Soil Stripes in Cold Humid Regions and a Kindred Phenomenon, 12th Rept.
Many of the types of tectonic and volcanic lakes which have been described are characteristic of humid and arid regions alike.
Character profiles of landscapes shaped by stream erosion in humid climates.
Within humid regions its depth may vary from a few feet to a few hundred feet, while in desert areas the surface may lie as low as a thousand feet or more.
The gabled façade so largely developed in desert landscapes and sharply contrasted with the recurring curves in the landscapes of humid districts (from a painting of the Grand Cañon of the Colorado by Moran).
Thus it is seen that the sands of deserts, in contrast to those yielded by other processes within humid regions, have a characteristic red color, and this may vary from brownish red upon the one hand to a rich carmine upon the other.
In broad lines these differences may be summed up in the greater prevalence of the curving line within the landscapes of humid districts.
Just such torments as the great Prussian traveller suffered from insects in the forests of South America, our plant-hunters had to endure while passing through the humid woods of the Lower Himalayas.
It is as right for the National Government to make the streams and rivers of the arid region useful by engineering works for water storage as to make useful the rivers and harbors of the humid region by engineering works of another kind.
Laws founded upon conditions obtaining in humid regions, where water is too abundant to justify hoarding it, have no proper application in a dry country.
Not having practiced in the humid tropics myself, I have no definitive answer about this.
In hot, humid weather of early summer a racer may have several hundred chiggers attached to it, filling most of the areas of exposed skin between the scales.
The species thus conforms to Gloger's Rule in changing from a pallid coloration in arid climates to a dark pattern with eumelanins predominating in a humid climate.
In autumn some racers migrating to rock ledges to hibernate are found in mesic forest, but at that time of year leaves have begun to fall and the forest floor is less dark and humid than in summer.
Some distant flashes of lightning could still be seen; the perfume of humid verdure filled the warm air.
As I spoke these words, Madame Pierson fixed her humideyes on mine; I saw the happiness of my life come to me in the flash of those orbs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "humid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
