Though the water flashed around them, not an eye was seen to quiver; Though the shot flew sharp and deadly, not a man relax'd his hold; For their hearts were big and thrilling with the mighty thoughts of old.
The limpid water turbidly ran, And the broken lilies a-dying lay, 10 And the dragon-fly had fled away, Ere he brought it out of the river.
Thick blew the smoke across the stream, and faster flash'd the flame: The water plash'd in hissing jets as ball and bullet came.
I'm pouring water in a sieve, Sylvia, and that's the devil's truth.
For them she spun rare tales old and new and rendered Kim and the Water Babies, the Immortal Alice and other beloved favorites of the realms of gold until she knew them nearly by heart.
He took a hasty swallow of water from the glass beside his plate, then rose and made a few quick, nervous turns, up and down the room.
So the prince ordered a great ox to be slain and roasted whole, and two huge tanks to be made, one filled with water and the other with wine.
It is the most refreshing water I have ever tasted, and Cornichon will say so too!
And he dipped it into the well, and the water stayed in it.
And they brought in a great beast, and he drew thewater out of the well, and the flowers revived, and the grass grew green again.
Then he arose and began to draw the water from the well.
He had ridden already a long way, when he saw in the distance a hut, and rode straight towards it in order to get some water to drink.
As Lazarus remained so long away, the Draken sent one of their number to see what had become of him, and when this one came to the spring, Lazarus said to him: 'We will no more plague ourselves by carrying water every day.
They went first for water and wood, but at last it came to be Lazarus's turn to go for water.
The fruit and clear fresh water would, she knew, prevent her from dying of hunger or thirst, but how could she escape if any wild beast appeared and tried to devour her?
When he came to the garden where the cherries grew he jumped off his horse, drank some water from the spring, which rose there, and fell directly into a deep sleep.
The whole court wept with joy at the sight, and Toupette ran up to Cornichon, who had fallen down in his surprise, promising to pay him long visits, and tell him of all her balls and water parties.
Beware lest you drink thiswater with any other man than him who will one day be your husband.
The lower floor was like a great bathroom, where the water was let in or off at will.
To-day the water was tranquil enough, and the heavens so blue that all the atmosphere had an extraordinary brilliance.
But what a lovely, joyous summer it was, with its walks and water excursions up and down the river and on the great pond!
But when you see the little old map with its Rue this and that, one smiles and contrasts its small levee with the twenty or more miles of water front, kept, too, within bounds, bridged over magnificently.
Soon the waterbubbled up and the fragrance of the steaming corn diffused itself about the room.
He soused his head now in the miniature basin and shook it like a water dog.
She put it in some water herself, and brought the stand near the fireplace, for sometimes it would freeze on the outer edges of the room, though they kept a big log fire all night.
Valbonais pressed the water out of his, and tried to catch the inspiration.
The water is clear and deep," said Wawataysee; "too deep for one to wade.
She had been trying to esteem him a little now that she was so lonely, but all the endeavor was like water spilled on the ground, and he had broken the bowl.
When we were at the water side we got the lamb and the ewe on board and put out to sea, running all that day before a fair wind which Circe had sent us, and at nightfall entering the deep waters of the river Oceanus.
If the water had been that of any such river as is to be found in Asia Minor, Greece, or Sicily, one man would probably have been enough, whereas there seem to have been several plying for hire, as in a port or harbour.
Nausicaa washed the clothes in sea water as I have seen women in the island of Pantellaria still do.
Ulysses' bath water to heat water for Patroclus, or that the writer of the Odyssey omitted the line about Patroclus, and used the rest of the passage to heat water for Ulysses' bath?
It must have water in it, and also prehistoric implements should be found there.
Then the old woman got a large foot bath and put some 386 cold water into it, adding hot water until it was the right heat.
A man would have made Penelope desire suddenly to leave the cloister, just before the accident happened, and lie down upon that couch which she had never ceased to water with her tears, &c.
Also get sponges and clean water to swill down the tables and the seats.
Before I leave the Ithaca scenes I ought to show that there may well have existed at Trapani a sheet of water which cattle would be likely to cross in a boat, as described in Od.
One great difficulty in making the Salt Works was the abundance of fresh water springs, which made it necessary to cement the salt pans in order to keep the fresh water from mixing with the salt.
Two streams go through it, the one turned in ducts throughout the whole garden, while the other is carried under the ground of the outer court to the house itself, and the townspeople drew water from it.
He is conducted to the house of Alcinous by a girl who had come out of the town to fetch a pitcher of water (vii.
Put the cloths on the seats, sponge down the tables; wash the cups and mixing bowls, and go at once, some of you, to fetch water from the fountain.
There is, then, no reason, dearest brother, for any one to think that the custom of certain persons is to be followed, who in times past have thought that water alone should be offered in the cup of the Lord.
Does any one perchance flatter himself with this reflection—that, although in the morning water alone is seen to be offered, yet when we come to supper we offer the mingled cup?
Moreover, we bless the water of baptism and the oil of chrism, and, besides this, him who is baptized.
But if the water alone be offered, the people begin to be without Christ, but when both are mingled and are joined to each other by an intermixed union, then the spiritual and heavenly sacrament is completed.
Thus, therefore, in consecrating the cup wateralone should not be offered to the Lord, even as wine alone should not be offered.
But if thou hast neither, pour water upon the head thrice in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Because Christ bore us all, in that He also bore our sins, we see that in the water is understood the people, but in the wine is showed the blood of Christ.
There will be no room or provision or water for you on board the Jeanne D'Arc after to-night.
His face became so pale and drawn that it resembled a sponge from which the last drop of water had been pressed.
The two in thewater watched with fascinated eyes, filled with awe.
An empty passage smelling of bilge-water and pent-up gases opened suddenly on to the larger dock.
The darkness of the night was penetrable, so that they could see a fairly large circle of water about them, but there was no shadow of the Jeanne D'Arc.
Then he gave her food in little bits from a basket, and sweet water out of a bottle.
She still took the water gallantly, nose and closed mouth just topping the wave, like a spaniel.
With a cry of gladness he saw her pale face rise to the surface of the water several feet away and toward the bow.
Now she suddenly tipped down at her stern; her bow was thrown up out of the water for an instant, only to be drawn down again, slowly but irresistibly, as if she were pulled by a giant's unseen hand.
Water front, dock privileges, and a guaranty that no one shall build where it will shut off your view.
Jim helped her keep afloat, and presently he saw that, freed from the entanglement of so many clothes, she was as much at home in the water as he.
Agatha took a glass of water from the table, looked about for a napkin, but, seeing none, wet the tips of her fingers and placed them gently over James's lips.
Fresh gusts of wind from the sea blew clouds of fog and mist inland, while the surface of the water turned from gray to green, from green to blue.
He fell face forward into thewater again at his first attempt; and again the strong hand pulled him up and half-carried him over some slimy rocks.
No, Mademoiselle; I did not know you had fallen into thewater until I brought you ashore in the morning.
Antinous colored, and answered in confusion: "I was startled when you suddenly roused up, with his name so loudly on your lips, when I brought you back to life with water and this essence.
Their horse-shaped heads poured water into a vast basin, which, in the lapse of centuries, had grown full of a green and filmy vegetation.
Now Mastor returned with thewater and the blue phial, and gave them to the Bithynian.
This morning it threw down my daughter and smashed a costly pitcher, which she is fond of carrying to fetch water in the dawn.
One ounce of strychnia sulphate dissolved in 2 gallons of hot water was found sufficient to poison 30 pounds of chopped alfalfa previously moistened with water.
Drain off the water and with a tin pepper box slowly sift over them powdered strychnine (alkaloid preferred), stirring constantly so that the poison is evenly distributed.
Big Monopolist Mammon, how calm could you rest With your dividends high in the way you love best; But when water runs short, and diseases increase, The East End won't leave you and your Waterat peace.
Twas that greed and neglect had combined, it is clear, To make East End water deficient and dear; And Monopoly now the supply must improve, Or more than mere Mare Streets will be on the move.
He turned round and round in the water like a wheel, stretched his neck up into the air toward them, and uttered so loud and strange a cry that he was frightened at it himself.
No mare's nest they'd found, no, the Hackneyite heart Was hot at the new Water Company start!
A group of pale-red unglazed fragments is from the bottom of a water cooler.
Base sherd from unglazed red-earthenware water cooler, with spigot hole.
A legging or gaiter extending to the knee, worn as a protection from water and mud.
The water is stagnant, being found only in a slough of black mud, and fuel is very scarce.
The crossing of the river was very different from that of three months ago; we merely rolled up our pantaloons and forded the stream, coming out on the other side perfectly dry, the water being no place more than knee deep.
Our camp stands upon the bank of the creek, where excellent water is available, wood convenient, and grass for the herd plentiful and good.
The water here is found only in grassy springs and is not very pure.
The sun shot down its melting rays with overpowering intensity, and, to add to our misery, no water was found that was fit to drink.
But during the night the fires became extinguished, and, a dense fog having arisen, our blankets were saturated with water when we awoke.
Our camp to-night is on a branch of Sweet Water Creek.
Vasco Nunez de Balboa was not more delighted at the discovery of the Pacific Ocean than were we at the sight of the cool, clear water of the river, to which we helped ourselves liberally.
When we came within sight of the river the whole Company made an unceremonious rush for it--never did water seem more cool and refreshing.
The coolness of this delightful spot was a strong inducement for lingering, but duty pointed us over the barren prairie again, and very reluctantly we left Sweet Water Canyon behind.
True, two puddles of stagnant water did present themselves to our longing eyes, but how grievous was our disappointment when, upon tasting, the water proved to be brackish and sulphurous.
Where it struck a large rock the water would dash up to a height of five or six feet.
He did not know what pink chiffon was, but he understood that water would injure it.
Randolph ran up-stairs before his mother and Charlotte and snatched the hot-water bottle out of his mother's bed, and was out the opposite door, which connected with the back stairs leading to the kitchen.
He asked for a glass two-thirds full of water and poured some dark drops into it.
One hundred and sixty-three Water Street," replied Day.
The little sheet of water gleamed dully like an obscured eye of life.
You can pour a little hot water in it to hurry it.
I am afraid I shall get some water on my gown if I touch them, and I noticed just now that some one had brushed against them and jostled some out.
The fire was still very good, and the water in the tea-kettle quite boiling.
Between them stood a small table, and on it a tumbler of water and a plate with slices of bread and jam.
But the tale shows no glimpse, I think, of her future power, and is as far removed from "A Morning in the Bodleian" as water is from wine.
In 1909 she went for the last time to the Villa Bonaventura at Cadenabbia, the place which was to her, I think, the high-water mark of earthly bliss.
On the grave of Augusta this garland be plac’d, We’ll rifle the spring of its earliest bloom; And there shall the cowslip and primrose be cast, And the tears of her country shall water her tomb.
The water was alive with boats, their white sails glimmering in the sunlight, as the dying breeze bore them slowly on their way.
Two oars struck the water with a splash, and the dingey shot out from the gang steps of the Sylph the steady strokes of two sturdy sailors sending the little craft swiftly on its way.
The swash of thewater against the boat, the slight straining and creaking of the rigging, the sighing of the wind in the sails, were sounds sweet as music to the ear of every true lover of the sea.
By and by Helen's gaze strayed from the bathers to the stretch of blue water beyond, and a slightly troubled look crept into her eyes.
Agathemer had put more fuel on the fire and set a big pot of water on the tripod.
They were flat-bottomed, bulged, but narrowed at the rim so that no water would splash out in carrying.
I had brought food and water with me and ate about noon, slept an hour or more and woke to watch the passage of two trains of cages full of lions, tigers, leopards and panthers.
What we took we took strong, mixing wine and water in equal proportions.
We found their most natural lope and, pausing to drink and to water them sparingly at the loneliest springs we descried, we pressed on through or past the Towers, Pyrgos, and Castrum Novum to Centumcellae.
When my major-domo came forward, Tanno queried: "How much water did you mix with the wine we've been drinking with our dinner?
More wonderful than that," spoke up Juventius Muso, "I have seen lampreys feed from his hand without biting it, and I have even seen him pick up lampreys out of the water without their attempting to bite him.
We might be drowned, at any point of the crawl, by a rush of water from the bath-tank.
He worshiped thewater and was happiest when afloat and well out to sea.
Galvius was a careful husbander of the wine, and we drank mostly water from the spring.
It also means a young man who orders a glass of water and a toothpick at a café, and is able to talk politics for a considerable time on this slender nourishment.
He could reach the little fountain as he knelt, and he gathered some water in his palm and sprinkled it upon her face.
The sinews of goodness are courage, moral and physical, a fact which places all really good men and women beyond the reach of ridicule and above the high-water mark of the world's contempt.
There is not even a drop of holy water in the basins," moaned Maria Luisa.
Well, we had to go through the rocky lane, Close to that bridge where the water roars, By a still, red house, where the dark and rain Go in when they will at the open doors.
Above the noise of the water and the whistle of the wind, he heard a familiar sound,--the shrill, sharp neigh of a horse.
After a while I flew with these others to this window, and, as we alighted on the glass, the cold changed us from water sprites into sprites of the Fine Frost family.
No, no," replied a chorus of many small voices from the drop of water, "we are only water sprites again.
You'll have to go down for more water in the morning if you use it all.
Spat'-ter-dash-es, coverings for the legs to keep them clean from water and mud.
When the water of a large pond is properly conducted by trenches, it renders the fields around fertile; but when it bursts through its banks, it sweeps everything before it and destroys the produce of the fields.
Whirl'-pool, a gulf in which the water moves round in a circle.
Wa'ter-spout, a column ofwater caught up by a whirlwind.
I heard the miller tell Will Davis that the water was too low.
As the last speaker moved away, Gilbert saw a led horse plunging through the water beside the other.
His mistress found him one day sitting on her toilet table, holding in one hand a little china mug with water in it, and in the other her toothbrush, with which he was cleaning his teeth, looking all the time in the glass.
She dreamed that it was a very cold morning, and that she was standing by the dining-room stove, looking into the glass basin which was every day filled with water for evaporation.
Francine, watching on the surface of the water the black lines thrown by the willows, noticed, carelessly at first, the uniform trend of their branches, caused by a light breeze then prevailing.
Don't smoke upon the powder-cask; wasting courage for nothing is like carrying water in a basket.
That part of the little peninsula on which the house and gardens were placed was still further protected by a moat filled with water from the two lakes which it connected.
Giles remarks: "The idea of using water as emblematic of spiritual washing is too obvious to allow surprise at the antiquity of this rite.
Some deny all vital magnetism, and would reject alike the holy water of religion and the magnetised water of medical science.
With a different idea, or substance, flour and water would take a different form, as indeed they do when assimilated by the body.
A doctor will magnetise water and cure his patient therewith.
In the Greek and Roman Churches a small receptacle for holy water is placed near every door, and every incoming worshipper touches it, making with it on himself the sign of the cross ere he goes onward towards the altar.
Referring to the escape of the Israelites from Egypt, he speaks of the Red Sea as a baptism, of the manna and the water as spiritual meat and spiritual drink, of the rock from which the water flowed as Christ.
Whether in the Baptism of initial reception into the Church, or in these minor lustrations, water is the material agent employed, the great cleansing fluid in Nature, and therefore the best symbol for purification.
An acorn, while yet alive, sinks readily, and is not suited forwater navigation, unless by accident it rides on some driftwood.
They then float on the water and produce new plants.
The seeds of the white water lilies, and yellow ones also, by special arrangement float about on the water with the current or the wind.
Turtles swim from pond to pond or crawl from the water to the sand bank, where they lay and cover their eggs.
Fruit of basswood as a sailboat, and a few others as adapted to the water .
Living branches snap off and are carried by water or wind.
When the rivers break up, the seeds are carried down stream, and perhaps left to grow on dry land after the water has retired.
Water does not seem to get into the berries even when they are torn open, for when it is poured over the branches it rolls off the calyx roof as freely as from a duck's back.
As these trees are most abundant along the margins of streams, the fruit often drops into the water and is carried down stream to some sand drift or into the mud, where more sand is likely to cover them.
The pods often remain on the trees all winter, and when dry, will float on the water of overflowed streams without any injury resulting to the hard seeds.
Each spikelet with its chaff adheres to two empty glumes, stout, thick, and spongy, which make a safe double boat for transportation down stream whenever the water is high enough.
When the outer covering of seeds of water lilies, arums, and others are broken, the gummy secretion is very likely to adhere to the feathers, or fur, or feet of animals.
Some belonging to the lower water interest carried their scepticism as to the efficacy of artificial propagation to the length of believing that hatcheries are partially responsible for the decrease.
Having distanced my poorly mounted pursuers I stopped to water my horse at the spring before riding the few hundred yards to the gates of Cartillon.
Off to one side the water kept leaping up into the air as I am told the spouting springs do in the Dacotah country.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "water" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
