Moister and wife arrived at St. Mary's and set to work at once to recommence the mission schools and public services.
Mr. Moister was relieved in 1833 by the arrival from England of a noble band of laborers.
A crooked and broken thread of timber growth appeared, marking the moister soil and outlining the general course of the shallow stream, whose giant cottonwoods were dwarfed now by the distances.
When dawn came, before he had broken his long vigil, Jackson was bending over footmarks in the moister portions of the soil.
Her skin, clear white, had lost its sunburn in the moister climate between the two ranges of mountains.
During the Glacial period, a few thousand years ago, the climate was moister and cooler than it is now.
Animals and plants brought to this region from a moister climate must drink continually to make up for the rapid evaporation of moisture from their bodies; a day without water may result in death.
Asia and in the southwestern United States, almost innumerable facts seem to indicate that two or three thousand years ago the climate was distinctly moister than at present.
The Maya chronology and traditions indicate that this was probably at the same time when moister conditions apparently prevailed in the subarid or desert portions of the United States and Asia.
Hence historic records of famines and droughts do not indicate that the climate was either drier or moister than at present.
If the climate had been moister and cooler, the date could not have flourished at Jericho.
It seems to fit the facts, for variations in cyclonic storms cause some regions to be moister and others drier than usual.
Evidence of this sort is abundant and is as convincing as is the evidence of moister conditions in the past.
The first objection is the unquestionable fact that droughts and famines have occurred at periods which seem on other evidence to have been moister than the present.
Moreover, the atmosphere is always slightly moister than it is to the east, and does not tend to dry up the ground or evaporate the mountain snows so rapidly as in the summit range.
Almost all the differences between the Selkirks and the Rockies proper, spring from the single cause of a moister climate.
Everything betokened a moister climate, and the character of the vegetation had changed so much that many new kinds of plants appeared, while those with which we were familiar grew ranker and larger.
Coarse and scanty grasses grow beneath them on the more barren hills, and a luxuriant herbage in the moister localities.
On the mountains from two to four thousand feet elevation there is a much moister atmosphere, so that potatoes and other European products can be grown all the year round.
I have expressed on several occasions, that these plants have originated long before the Glacial period at a time when the climate was warmer and moister than it is now.
Every one will agree with him that the climate of Siberia must have been greatly moister in pliocene and pleistocene times than it is now.
The climate was probably much moister but not colder than what it is now, possibly warmer.
I will give you an account of the whole process:—The tobacco leaves are accounted ripe when their ends turn yellow, and wither, and are plucked before noon, as being moister at that time.
Both in marshy plains, and in the moister woods, you see a great abundance and variety of reeds; some solid, others hollow.
London, atmosphere of, moister than that of the country, ii.
Under these circumstances central Asia probably enjoyed a much moister climate than at present, without extreme cold.
Even in late Magdalenian days, after a cold and dry interval accompanied by steppe conditions and a new formation of loess, the air became moister and the temperature gradually moderated until it became much like that of to-day.
The climate of Europe was then somewhat colder and much moister than at present.
The last is the best, as the croquettes can be moisterin this form than in the two others.
By the new process more starch and less of the outer coats, which contain much of the phosphates, is retained; so that the flour makes a whiter and moister bread.
The white are something colder and moister than the red, both of them loosen the belly, but have little or no nourishment.
In reality there traverse the plain glens and gently graded hollows the less apt to be noticed, inasmuch as the scrub in moister dell grows higher.
A sandy soil is usually drier than a loam or a clay, especially if it lies rather high: plants growing on a sandy soil make less growth and have narrower and smaller leaves than those on a moister soil.
It is both warmer and moister in the valley (since water runs down hill), and so we can account for the proverbial fertility of valleys.
Further, water runs down hills and collects in low-lying hollows or valleys; here, therefore, the soil is moister than it is somewhat higher up.
You can see what a difference there is; in the drier pot the leaves are rather narrow and the plants are small, in the moister pot the leaves are wide and the plants big.
You would probably notice that on the drier, sandy or gravel ground there was nothing like as great a growth of grass or of other plants as on the moister soil.
Ants abound, dominating the insect life, while wasps and spiders, with various flies and midges, gather about the vital colonies of the drier plains and swarm in the moister belts.
They may not endure the moister air near the Mississippi, but there we have already many useful natives, like the black haw and thorn apple, that are as yet almost unnoticed.
The aspen is found in groves, groups, and scattered growths in the moister places all over the woodland.
It shone through the maze of mingled twigs for miles till I finally lost it in topping the plateau, passing from loose sand to clayey bottom and fairer growth in moister and more fertile soil.
Moreover, trees grown on high, droughty, barren soil show greater heating power than those of the same variety which happen to stand in rich, but moister soil.
That this dryness of the hills is partly due to elevation, appears from the disproportionately moister state of the atmosphere below the Dunwah pass.
The other narrowleaf evergreens prefer intermediate to moister soils and the Chisos Basin is a good place to see both drooping and alligator junipers, the latter named for the square scales that make its bark look like alligator hide.
The climate is considerably cooler and moister than that in the vicinity of Patna; and the hot winds, according to report, are almost a month later in commencing, than they are at that city.
Generally it was a moister and more fertile world.
Europe and central Asia were probably warmer, moister and better wooded than they are now.
Whence it seems probable that the air of England in general may, as well as that of London, be moister than the air of America, since that of France is so, and in a part so distant from the sea.
And, on the other hand, after a warm season, if the air grows cold, though moister than before, the dew is not so apt to gather on the walls.
As I could not imagine any other cause for this change of dimensions in the box, when in the different countries, I concluded, first generally that the air of England was moister than that of America.
In this town the air is generally moister than with us, and here I have seen Mr. Canton electrify the air in one room positively, and in another, which communicated by a door, he has electrised the air negatively.
In the moister parts of the clough, especially near the reservoir, may also now be seen in perfection the deep yellow marsh-marigold.
On the moister banks, such as those at the lower edge of the wood, grows also the golden saxifrage, a pretty little plant, with flat tufts of minute yellowish bloom.
Sand later blown up the dune front or rolled down from the dune crest is encouraged to remain near the cornice on an abnormally steep slope by the attraction which the slightly moister sand has for the dry grains blown against it.
The type of forest in the moister tracts of the valley floor at Sahuayaco.
There is a distinct difference between the glacial forms of the eastern or moister and the western or dryer flanks of this Cordillera.
At the lower edge of the zone of cloud it stops abruptly on the warmer and drier slopes that face the afternoon sun and continues on the moister slopes that face the forenoon sun or that slope away from the sun.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moister" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
